John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “Of all the extraordinary feats, I think the first voyage of Columbus must go down as perhaps the most unusual.”

It symbolizes, I believe, this highway, first of all, the partnership between the Federal Government and the States, which is essential to the progress of all of our people.

They may be facts which some would prefer to forget, but if the United States of America, and particularly the Northeast United States, these 15 States, are going to move ahead and provide a better life for the people of Delaware and the…

No, we are going to bring back several hundred before the end of the year.

And I think that--the governmental standards, let me say, on the whole I think compare favorably with those in Washington, with those in some other parts of America.