John Franklin Quotes (17 Quotes)

It's not so much Katrina as a phenomenon as it's Katrina as a metaphor for what our society has become. It reflects it's a mirror of what we've become - super-extraordinarily complacent.

A lot of women are smart and capable. We have to give them opportunities so that they know they can succeed. It's about self-esteem. It's important for women to be confident.

We are in the business of driving drugs out of Reading, not people.

If the CEO isn't engaged, you don't have a campaign,

We're coming up on in-gathering for Mary Hill Davis Offering for state missions. My church has just become a church made up completely of missionaries. This is mission right here, and this is so exciting,

I'm just waiting to see if it will happen. I've been disillusioned so many times before. It's 2006, and there's nothing in the nation's capital to show what happened to African-Americans. Nothing.

I will certainly listen to any information they have and vote accordingly.

Individuals have become much more inclined to do their own shopping, whether it is buying things online or philanthropy, ... We found ourselves being a middleman at a time no one wanted middlemen.

God has used this situation to give my people on-hands experience at working and putting the rubber to the road in ministry and becoming missionaries. I think our church is going to be receiving a blessing from this years from now.

At least the kids are trying, scratching away, although they don't quite have it. It's like watching a cartoon, but it's nostalgic. They're trying. ... all the clear-cutting of babies.

For me, it's a good policy.

Her determination (was) to stand up, not merely for herself, not merely for all women, not merely for African-Americans but for all Americans.

We are going to do our best to reach out to every citizen of the United States, to engage them in every way possible, and to make certain that they appreciate fully the opportunity which we have to do something not only significant but even spectacular.

We know all too little about the factors that affect the attitudes of the peoples of the world toward one another. It is clear, however, that color and race are at once the most important and the most enigmatic.

I want to be out there on the firing line, helping, directing or doing something to try to make this a better world, a better place to live,

This guy's family deserves a peaceful funeral. It's not right what they're doing. The only reason they're able to walk around like that is because the veterans fought for their freedom.

He doesn't want to worry about how five kids parcel out one company.