| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. | | | |
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| | | NUMBER: | 611 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independent—an amount less than this country’s annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President JOHN F. KENNEDY, remarks at the dinner of the Protestant Council of the City of New York, November 8, 1963.—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963, p. 842. |
| SUBJECTS: | Foreign aid |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia | | |
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