John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “I again urge that the Congress restore to District residents the basic right to local self-government.”

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

I think she is very formidable, if that is the appropriate word to use about a very fine lady.

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.