John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “And because we believe that our fate is so inextricably tied to that of Ecuador and our sister republics and our future…”

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

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

I regard it as serious.

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.