John Kennedy actually said...

"I am pleased to extend my personal thanks to you and hope you will also convey my gratitude to those who assisted you."

"It is clear that we must move forward on all approaches that will contribute to achieving our goal."

"The purpose, of course, of all this concentrated effort must be to maintain the peace."

"We arm, as Winston Churchill said a decade ago, to parley, to make it possible for us through diplomatic means to maintain the peace of the world, to maintain our security and those who are associated..."