I've always wanted to meet you, Mrs. Bethune.
"I will tell you that 100 percent of the people that I ran into in the course of my work did not understand the direct relationship between a U.S. senator from Georgia and their everyday lives. They felt that, in fact, I'd be leaving them because I would not be dealing with local issues."
| A quote from Atlanta Mayor Shirley Franklin, explaining why she turned down a chance at a Senate run, in Melanie Eversley's Atlanta Journal-Constitution article "Blacks urged to focus on '04 race"
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