Henry B. Eyring Quotes
We cannot control what others choose to do, and so we cannot force our children to heaven, but we can determine what we will do. And we can decide that we will do all we can to bring down the powers of heaven into that family we want so much to have forever.
Eyring, Henry B. "Help Them on Their Way Home." Ensign, May 2010, p. 22.
Contrast this view with that of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s book title in 1995.
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.
Henry Bennion Eyring is an American educational administrator, author, and religious leader. Eyring has been the Second Counselor to Russell M. Nelson in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since January 14, 2018. Previously, Eyring was the First Counselor to Thomas S. Monson in the First Presidency from 2008 until Monson's death on January 2, 2018. Eyring was the Second Counselor to Gordon B. Hinckley in the First Presidency from October 6, 2007, until Hinckley's death on January 27, 2008.
