John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We are gratified that Chairman Khrushchev has agreed to withdraw these weapons from this hemisphere.”

I just say that there's no sense having a program if a man who is innocent of any intelligence mission, which is true in this case, is subjected to arrest without means of defense.

I regard it as serious.

I congratulate you, the people of Delaware, the people of Maryland, and the people of the United States.

I know who they are going to blame.