John F. Kennedy: “Local mass transit, faring even worse, is as essential a community service as hospitals and highways.”

The product of our abundance must be used more effectively to relieve hunger and help economic growth in all corners of the globe.

But if these programs were ever to be ended, our failures in a dozen countries would be sudden and certain.

But today, were I to offer--after little more than a week in office--detailed legislation to remedy every national ill, the Congress would rightly wonder whether the desire for speed had replaced the duty of responsibility.

There is no longer any reason why American children should suffer from polio, diphtheria, whooping cough, or tetanus.