You take people as far as they will go, not as far as you would like them to go.

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"You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake."

- Jeannette Rankin

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"I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last."

- Jeannette Rankin

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"How shall we explain to them the meaning of democracy if the same Congress that voted for war to make the world safe for democracy refuses to give this small measure of democracy to the women of our country?"

- Jeannette Rankin

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"Leaders can let you fail and yet not let you be a failure."

- Stanley McChrystal

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- Jack Welch

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