Leadership in today's world requires far more than a large stock of gunboats and a hard fist at the conference table.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure -- but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.