That's what I love about being mayor. Even if the problem is getting the cat out of the tree - from that to the biggest problem, you're in charge. No…

- Shirley Franklin

When you are an executive, my friends, that is not leadership.

- Shirley Franklin

We should try to achieve things for ourselves and not rely on former or past family glories with which we have no connection but the arbitrary nature…

- Shirley Franklin

I'm five-foot-something, sixty years old; I'm not much of a physical threat to anybody.

- Shirley Franklin