“Because I don’t like other bastards making decisions that affect my life when they so clearly don’t know what they are doing… I just don’t like the idea of people making decisions as to how I am going to live my life without some sort of input into it.”
He went on to say local councillor jobs “are expressly designed for those who are unemployed or unemployable, mostly the latter actually, or they have retired and are looking for something to do to supplement their superannuation… It’s not a place that generally attracts the movers and the shakers, business people, the entrepreneurs, the young housewives, the tradies, the people who have a real life… it tends to attract and is designed to attract only a very small group of New Zealanders who won't get in the way of the very well-paid, well-remunerated local government officials.”
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzEjICmkO7g