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hello again and welcome to spotlight they enter the shelf. alderney all bend today my guest is richard dale. the longest serving mayor of chicago has left our first coffee twenty two years and the trip he managed to turn the declining address tell city into a distillation city pushed through immigration reform and masterly dealt with racism issues winning support of the black chicago these problems are characteristic for many big cities so what advice does the scariest mayor out for must have my guest today is a veteran us to look at a war horse and the longer serving mayor of chicago richard daley.

richard daley who's the patriarch of a very influential political family often come to the kennedys he was just the best mayor out of a lot of cities are you asked for make the chicago business friendly city richard daley belongs to the democratic party you supported barack obama during the presidential campaign three years ago his younger brother william white house chief of staff. all over surveilling thank you very much all the things you very much a pleasure having to be here right from moscow to petersburg we will be talking about moscow. let's talk chicago illinois the first question i want to ask you would you like to go on the record breaking politician so how difficult was the decision to leave it was your decision you you decided to quit enough and was it or was it maybe a wife we kids who maybe didn't know know you. what happened is that i enjoy public

life i was mayor for twenty two years and prior to that ten years a state's attorney i was a full time public servant for over thirty two years and prior to that eight years as a state senator which was a part time and so i enjoyed my public career i was a public servant and enjoyed every minute of it and i sacrifice but i thought of the time that many times in our life if it looks too easy to get so easy it's a disservice to myself or to the public and i thought of the best decision i could make or i could have run again when and all that but i just felt that it was time and people would try to figure that out you just you just wake up and you realize that what you've made your family happy now well they were happy before because you have they were a wonderful family for wonderful children and wife and friends and all that and you know so it's a part of public life was there or so it wasn't like

a burden you know i enjoyed it but people think that being a mayor such a big cities even is even more time consuming than being in prison so you won't is because it's yes because you have to have passion and you have to love people even though they say things and do things you're still in the four hours a day and think about a garbage so your is your burden people call you like twenty four i don't really love well this place somebody told me don't have a man not what he had moved when you were no i never did well because the decision when i drove around the city i took notes every day is sauce things differently and i never micromanage people i say you have to have passion and you have to love people and you have to have a desire to improve the city in the first thing i did one of the first things i did is you know that while cleaning up the city and having people be part of a block of community organizations in the business community and the realization that the greatest gift i could give to any child is a good education if i give a child. good education i give a gift for life but if i fail they become

a burden upon their family and society or another generation that you giving people a good education is not complex so what is under you know it is you know it's the teachers there is no no it's not that's not the teacher is the role of the mayor says no and you say you're really giving education you take responsibility and so it isn't i'm the only mayor in the country it took responsibility and i played so myself that lie i want you have the system in you're the mayor you're responsible they're going to hold a responsible and hold to hold the mayor responsible in chicago and so when you want to do we want to give our we're give them an edgy but isn't just of the children schools or good oh you got into the program into the clouds into exams here is no no here's an exam we here's an example we teach arabic we take russian and we teach. chinese and it was eight years of the decision it was it was not a political decision it was an education decision to give young people opportunities to realise the world is changing and now only understand the language

the custom the history in traditions so that you have to you can't leave that then besides that we build sixty beautiful libraries in the city and he said you have to have a learning environment in the home and in the community it isn't just going to school you know to learn there it has to be the whole community says this is a learning environment and so that's what we have to do this is the only use or pass you found in far far the use of six through as well well two terms in office is one of the fundamental principles of our american democracy democracy in a lot of countries in the world so shouldn't be applied to two to the post of the mayor oh you know if you put your name up you say you want to learn here now that's a good that's the first volunteer i think people say we're all of the public is that they're smart we have to limit terms the public to smarter than anyone else they can say we like you or we just you what you do in the presidential term well i don't know i. i know the american people elected their academic for the fifteenth

and i wouldn't i wouldn't i wouldn't mind a i think any president should run but when you start limiting people that means you say the public doesn't have a nuff education or enough confidence or were thought to understand whether or not you're doing a good job and so my belief is you're right for you one for election and if they accept you the accept you then you carry that around well well maybe maybe they just think that when you are in office you've got too much of what we call the administrative resource i mean you can you can you can you can pull more money more resources to being relapse you've got them to go and there's no money because you just weren't reelected and you not worry about doing your job then you can't realise that most people worry about that maybe they don't accumulate money i get my campaign going and they forget about doing their job and so the mayor is more it's our partisan job the mayor is about people and that's what the mayor's office is about ok what's your biggest achievement what makes you kid kids proud of you as a mayor who i think is giving them

a good quality education striving to do that and i pointed out because you could do everything in a city but if you don't educate your children then you have really failed as a society and so the number one responsibility of government is to educate children and that includes the family and then cool and everyone is that just as we lead the way but it requires everybody behind you you are credited for saving she cardew from the decline suffered by other rest of centers like detroit for example what exactly has been done to revitalize the the this is the best rule so all this he should call is a public private partnership a business so i'm the mayor we're elected officials we work with the private business we say what you need the city's always change we said the chicago stockyards always they have should call huge industries and it changes so city has to be willing to change if it doesn't change it lives in the past. and it gets why you have to change our public private partners are we court the business come along

so what do we need in the workforce how can i put raise money in order to provide a better education how can i do affordable housing what we can do for the environment so you build a business community in a not for profit and academic community as a leader and say let's work together that doesn't mean we have a difference of opinion so our public private partnerships has helped the city tremendously more than any other city in america chicago was. in the world through the especially through the press for segregated neighborhoods divides and racial politics you tried hard to break these barriers good do ethnic divisions simply. can't win some but i think the visions you have like a german community have a polish community and you have segments of that but slowly but surely a generation intermarriage people being educated in so you have a total different generation you have more immigrants coming from the middle east you have more immigrants coming from north africa or immigrants coming from asia

and so that when you try to do is you provide a good education and you diversity is good but also it can create its problems so we're a very diverse city we're followed by immigrants jean baptist do saba was french haitian he fell in the city and today we welcome immigrants from all over the world into our great city and so that you you diversity is it has a strength but also can have its weakness and i say whatever happens in the rest of the world it should out by the you here in america and that doesn't mean there's ethnic religious or racial differences there will be but you try to really work at it we formed a human human rights commission human relations so there are very proactive in any activity in the city of chicago so they're out there with i have an aging committee and i'm going to span a community. community i have. an arab community. every chinese asian we have different committees set up so we can help new

immigrants who arrive in the city chicago is old also known in russia two movies as the gangster which. again stars in chicago are are a legend today well in moscow the gangsters are still alive and st petersburg eve as it is right now it was once labeled the gangster capital of russia a couple of years ago so they did this you see some similarities with the chicago you you saw in the movie the l o l compose one thousand nine hundred thirty one and i want anybody who's alive then it was like nineteen thirty and so late i thought shovels are always played so a piano add in you know we have a universe in chicago we have a great universe would not open to sions you know just a great city and so you know people to watch untouchables you know there's about you know you met most commuters to be ending you know if you want some advice do you discuss something that we all discussed that there was a panel and of course many people said talk about traffic and traffic is

a problem for all of the urban areas in the next ten or fifteen years almost eighty percent or more people live in urban areas it takes one hundred years of america to be urbanized this world to urbanize in less than twenty five years or thirty years and that is amazing we talked about environment we talked about how environment it is economic sense environment of the land the air in the water which is really important for a city we talked about traffic we talked about economic development housing you talked about the emergency police and fire and other things and mayors get together we talk about best practices what works and what doesn't work and the mayors are closest to the people and so they have to do you have to have a lot of passion and you can't solve everything well at least in striving to solve . says richard daley veteran u.s. politician and longest serving the mayor of chicago retired just in me spotlight

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welcome back to spotlight on i'll be nominee just a reminder now my guest today is richard daley a veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving mayor of chicago the guy did a lot for the city for. environment universities for reform for racial problems but mr daley thinks that he's biggest achievement is giving the kids a good education the right for leadership the right and leader to be a spokesperson for education ok now one of your best pupils your personal best pupils was michelle obama was she yes this is were you the guy who advocated it to become or all you know leadership but not on the show mama came from oh she was you you know you're going through your advisor or she played in a garment she's she's are well educated woman and her brother and came from a wonderful family parents again where they strive for education she was an amazing yes she worked in the mayor's office and of course she was your assistant or it was

she was in the planning of our office and she was a wonderful ploy she had the passion and dedication about it and of course president obama was a former community organizer a state senator u.s. senator and now we're very proud of him to be our president and he really we flex america first african-american mayor but he was elected on that alone he was elected and his competency and in his passion a willingness to look at people and see people in a different light he sees and looking at them and trying to give them a whole in a better world and a better country this is your opinion today when you go to time there's your opinion still counts in the democratic party well everybody counts i mean you know everybody counts i mean the let you go to i mean you're you're right no i don't think i think you listen to everyone it's not just those in government or have an opinion it's you have to really listen to the people that i did all my life that

people have more to say and then just political leaders well. we have today a u.s. president from illinois he's not exactly from chicago but from illinois it's a very special place do you think that being from illinois made a bama. special oh it's time you know he came he lived in chicago and he represented chicago and not only that but he has a different feeling from the midwest and the values and he understands the closest you have to be to people and he never lost it as president yet he has it great feeling people when people meet him one hundred one it's amazing they'll tell you about and of course very successful campaign young people felt that he's making changes and even today with a deep recession and a tough recession he's still very optimistic yet to be optimistic because everybody that we're go through a recession so you have to know there's light at the end of the tunnel but we're going to get there people rush to the often compare barack and kennedy where well

you would of course say that difference can't compare people because if you start each one has their own identity their own character they're all ideas of what their president should do but most importantly understand the great sacrifice that former presidents have made to the country and i can't speak for him but he's taken a part of all of them that some way have made a wonderful contribution all of the presidents to our country in the world do you think we shall about one hundred political ambition could could could should be like right hillary clinton number two well she's well educated in she's the first lady and she's making her voice heard and many of the issues confronting children in families and and not just in the country but in the world and she's a wonderful spokesperson as the first lady around around the world and you see it a wonderful family keep it their family life even in the white house so soon as her

influence on the president will just say what i would know i would know how much stronger influence that they have what they're loving couple respect each other and and she has a great education background and well respected. well is it more than the tea party or less than the tea party what do you think that the tea party in general really a challenge what remember people get a lot of frustrated you have a party get a beer party have a tea party have a coffee party whatever party you want in a democracy you know people form different things they get it and so like anything else there had to be heard in so you listen to them where they say in their freighted that they're afraid that america's going into bankruptcy so you have to listen to everyone and this is the route that's part of democracy and the person it was willing to listen he's making great strides of cutting back their various programs cutting back red tape and efficiency listening to the business community trying to understand how people can get hired the new jobs that we have to train

for so he's out there are responding to people well the bomber what was a great hit when he was elected well i mean worldwide but his popularity has been has been forming pretty pretty dramatically for the last in the last months or so and many many say it's big is because of the economic problems that lead us to do believe this is i doing so because of the only reason you know annoy every president for two years hit all time high then all of a sudden in the midterm elections midterm elections of any president to lose every president if you look back so they lose but in a recession when there's a recession you know people worry they start worrying about economic development and jobs and what's going to happen to their parents or what's going to happen today when they graduate everybody's looking for opportunities and what he's he's handling that stray downy he's looking at the eyes of the people he says listen we're trying to do everything possible nothing's perfect we're going to come

through it's challenging there's a hardship and he's out there if you watch him almost every day talking to the american public and not running or ducking from these issues what a chance it is in two thousand and twelve harman's you see the chances. in two thousand and twelve oh i think they're good i think i think he's done a very very good job and in difficult circumstances and he's now pointed his finger back and said i'm taking responsibility you know when you get to like to get take responsibility and that's what he's done he's not blamed anybody he's saying yes i have done this and this is how moving forward and people want a vision they want they want a leader they have passion and understanding at the same time to this economic problem is all over the world so it's not unique and united states is look at what's happening in europe today in china and other places and the recession is affecting everyone so illinois still supports the ports agronomy i think that says oh i don't. like his stronghold there you know i think you know when

a president hails from respectively bill clinton hail from arkansas on jimmy carter hails from georgia and. bush one to hail from texas they're very proud of that so you get their identity from chicago known or we're very proud that he hails from there. you you mentioned meeting people you told me when you came into the studio today that the that you use the television you are used to giving like for and use conferences that we easily you know muscular me russian politicians are scale they make like once a year but do you envy them or should they every year well you know one thing you know i am now not sorry about whatever the moscow or it was in petersburg but i made it a point to military for days or even saturday i can't i work there is saturday to make sure because the public is not working so that's when the marriage should be

out in so we get there for the not jewish. i was not there all the time and working and so that press always had access to me and so that was that was something i was proud of and they ask any question any any. question whatsoever and so that's our part of communicating with the public as well will the press but they do give you a hard time i mean you know i mean i have these to do in the state room for example here you're your governor mr blagojevich he's he's showed as an example of patronize corruption and things like that well you know it's funny he's already convicted of perjury and to retry him but he was he was somebody that. young man is well educated one injury lawyer well educated in a just he didn't understand what public service was about but that's it doesn't reflect our people or you know it doesn't affect everyone there are people who are

corrupted in every facet of life in the public and private sector academic community and not for profits is one of the failures of society it's a it's one of the failures of people that have isn't it sort of also traditional and chicano from the times of al capone in the now you don't know i don't think so i mean you take if i had to describe what europe was all about you wouldn't want to live there i guess you know i mean there are there are issues there in europe and it would i want to get into on. the market i'm sorry is here is because i would like me talking about germany and that's you know what we're trying to fight corruption here in moscow with everybody in russia and many people are saying this is difficult because it's a tradition this is what the russian russian business russian what this is what it is all about you do you never go to the doctor without carrying a large chocolate or a bottle of vodka you know the real case i mean i mean this is how it works but it can't because you can't survive on that because it's a it's

a world that is changing rapidly. at the st petersburg conference they tried to buy the russian investment fund where the russian government put enough money for foreign investment to come here and the first question. opens the transparency of corruption all the issues of the legal system and all that that's the first thing they're asked and so if it is a tradition you think it's doomed anyway why has to be because it eventually like anything else it affects the quality of service and the quality of service of government into any place in the world it could be any place in the world thank you thank you very much for being you enjoyed being here in moscow and st petersburg and i wish the people of russia the best of and the future and to say we have wonderful embassador burly he done a tremendous job representing united states russia come again bring your family i want to thank you thanks just to remind you that my guest today was richard daley a veteran u.s. politician and the longest serving average mayor of chicago twenty two years he

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