Claim: deeply care about others and are passionate about this city
“It’s euthanasia. You’re just giving them a place to kill themselves. That’s what is going to happen. You might as well just have a crematorium beside the crack house,” - on substance users, 2005
“If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn’t get AIDS probably. That’s the bottom line.... How are women getting it? Maybe they are sleeping with bisexual men." - on people with HIV/AIDS, 2006
"My heart bleeds for them when someone gets killed. But it’s their own fault at the end of the day.” - on cyclists killed on roads, 2007
"Just spoke to Mayor Rob Ford, power is still out at his house. He's in the SUV with his kids trying to stay cool #TOpoli #stormTO" - Don Peat speaking to the mayor during the July 2013 rainstorm
“I help a lot with the homeless out there. [But] I won’t give them money because I don’t know what they’re going to spend it on.” - homeless shelter comment, 2013
"C**ksuckers. Fuckin’ Chief Blair and them all. Cha, man. They chase me around for five months, man. Bumbaclot man. I said, me and him, ya raasclat bumbaclot." - on Bill Blair, 2014
" Leave me alone, man. They got five months man, and then trying to tell me ‘well, we’re counter-surveilling the guy.’ You know what I mean? He’s hiding here, I’m’a hide here. I’m’a—oh, we don’t—f*ck off." - on cops, 2014.
Claim: The Fords are for all of the people, not just some of the people
"And that’s why I say he’s gonna be the greatest mayor this city has ever, ever seen, as far as I’m concerned! And put that in your pipe, you left-wing kooks." Don Cherry speech to council, 2010
“There’s two types of people: poor people and rich people, and I side with the poor people.” Interview with Conrad Black, 2013
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