Global embarrassment :
Rob Ford on...
...public health:
"If you are not doing needles and you are not gay, you wouldn't get AIDS probably, that's bottom line... those are the facts."
...urban planning:
"What I compare bike lanes to is swimming with the sharks. Sooner or later you're going to get bitten... Roads are built for buses, cars, and trucks, not for people on bikes. My heart bleeds for them when I hear someone gets killed, but it's their own fault at the end of the day."
...immigration:
"Those Oriental people work like dogs. They work their hearts out. They are workers non-stop. They sleep beside their machines. That's why they're successful in life. I went to Seoul, South Korea, I went to Taipei, Taiwan. I went to Tokyo, Japan. That's why these people are so hard workers [sic]. I'm telling you, the Oriental people, they're slowly taking over."
...diversity:
"I don't understand. Number one, I don't understand a transgender. I don't understand. Is it a guy dressed up like a girl, or a girl dressed up like a guy? And we're funding this for -– I don't know, what does it say here –- we're giving them $3,210?"
...procuring Oxycontin:
"I'll try, buddy, I'll try. I don't know this sh** [Oxycontin], but I'll f****** try to find it. Why don't you go on the street and score it? F***, you know, I don't know any drug dealers at all."
...being asked to be quiet at a Maple Leafs game:
"Are you some kind of right-wing commie b*****d?... Do you want your little wife to go over to Iran and get raped and shot?... Green party f***ing rules."
awesome mayor .....
