Aleksandar Mitrovic Quotes
I try to do everything for my son so that, when he grows up, he can say that he was proud of his father.
Edwards, Luke. "Aleksandar Mitrovic: 'My father said I would be a criminal or a kick-boxer'." The Telegraph, Telegraph Media Group, 18 Mar. 2016.
What is most interesting about this quotation is not the fact of the corruption, but the blatant manner in which Daley admitted to it. Today, we look back and ask how such blatant, open corruption could be tolerated. At the time, while the public tended to see this as corruption, politicians actually saw it as a healthy part of the system. After all, they argued, we want the best men for high office, and we don’t want them to have large salaries at the expense of the taxpayer. The city needs the insurance, so no taxpayer is hurt if the mayor gives the insurance business to his son. Similarly, 4 decades later, most politicians do not view campaign contributions as corruption while many citizens do. This ethical and moral standard may change just as the steering of insurance contracts did.
