John Kennedy actually said...

The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth.

Special Message to the Congress on the Nation's Youth.

02/13/1963

More John Kennedy Quotes

I speak in the Senate for Massachusetts.

And we owe it to our Nation to educate our children, for the bedrock of democracy is a constantly rising level of the education of its citiz...

Only the President of the United States speaks for California and Illinois and Massachusetts, and he speaks for more than the United States.

That is the issue which you have to decide.