John Kennedy actually said...

"As I stated when the President arrived, he represents, personifies, and is in fact a national leader who has spent his life fighting for the freedom of his people."

"There isn't any doubt that people give--and I am talking now not about this incident, but about generally--under the expectation that they should, or it is expected of them."

"President Kennedy expressed the support of the United States for the inviolate right of peoples and countries to exercise freedom of choice in the organization of their societies and in the definition..."

"It is incumbent upon those who occupy positions of the highest responsibility and authority to set an impeccable example"