John Tory Quotes (23 Quotes)

By letting it go on, and suddenly ending it mysteriously on a Sunday afternoon, is not probably the best kind of leadership that one could show,

The two most repeated views I have been hearing from the community are the need for a better police presence and tougher sentencing for criminals using guns, ... Improving community programs and a coordinated youth strategy is also raised by many as a key factor in our efforts to stop this gun violence.

I want to see the premier and the attorney general (Michael Bryant), who showed such vigour (last summer) when it came to (banning) pit bulls, showing the same vigour when it comes to the criminal justice system,

I have no problem with him announcing an ad campaign, although it's the same one we have every year,

One of the tests of leadership in a diverse society is that you not allow issues like this -- which are complex -- to boil over into angry, polarized debates.

He has no plan ... and people are taking it in the neck across the province.

I think we've had basically 20-to-25 years, with the exception of the 427, where we've had nothing built.

Well, train service is not that simple, ... It is generally a subsidized service in most parts of the world. Some places, like in the U.S., use money from tolls to help fund transit.

Simple information requests encounter huge roadblocks or exorbitant costs and there are massive delays in getting information.

I think it's important to have the government understand that's huge - eight per cent of anybody's business is huge.

I don't think it's as much a game of chicken as it is a game of bully-boy on the part of the government.

I think his word is in such tatters I'm not sure why we'd believe that calculation,

People, I think in many cases, believe that health care is free. And it's not free. They pay for it through their taxes.

Our tendency has often been to say 'Well let's let the government worry about that', 'Phone a politician', 'Send a politician a letter'. I think people have to step up and take some ownership of these problems that includes crime but not limited to crime.

They insist on having a public relations extravaganza, probably at some cost to the taxpayers . . . to rehash a bunch of old promises (and) make a few new ones,

It's just evidence to the fact that if you let it lie and you don't address it and you don't attack it . . . that it's going to spread, ... You have to address it firmly and that is what has been lacking on the part of the McGuinty government.

A lot of people assume this is a Toronto problem. This is a problem across the province,

Which one of us with our bank manager would get away with predictions that are so wildly off it appears you don't know what's going on.

People in communities in the north are losing their jobs and this announcement will be little comfort to them,

Were all the protests really necessary People have the right to expect better and more competent leadership than that.

This is another example of a government that has lost all respect for taxpayers.

I do have a problem with the fact that that's it. This man came to the plowing match for the second year in a row and had nothing to say to an industry that is in crisis.

He has broken a fundamental trust with Ontarians and I have seen nothing that suggests he's decided to start being straightforward with people.