John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “We look forward to close and friendly relations between our two countries.”

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

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.

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

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.