You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.
Source: Jeannette Rankin:First Lady in Congress, by Hannah Josephson.
-- Jeannette Rankin, (Jun 11 1880-1973), US suffragist, politician; She was the first woman to serve in Congress, 1917-19; only member to oppose entry into World War I, II.