John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I urge American citizens in all walks of life to participate in the observance of National Freedom from Hunger Week.”

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 think it would be unwise to attempt to negotiate it out here.

I regard it as serious.

This is the worst attack on foreign aid that we have seen since the beginning of the Marshall plan.