“You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
"Ex-president says Polish politicians are poorly paid" in Polskie Radio https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Artykul/2786822,Expresident-says-Polish-politicians-are-poorly-paid (10 August 2021)
“You politicians remain professional because the voters remain amateur.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
“The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.”
Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer
Jack McDevitt (1935) American novelist, Short story writer
Source: Academy Series - Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, Odyssey (2006), Chapter 4 (p. 31)
Randall Jarrell (1914–1965) poet, critic, novelist, essayist
"The Intellectual in America" (1955), from A Sad Heart at the Supermarket (1962)
General sources
Tom Watson (Labour politician) (1967) British politician
Labour's Tom Watson: EU free movement rules must change https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36523759 BBC News (14 June 2016) <br class="br">2016
“[When the government says] 'everybody gets equal pay,' you get away from the whole American Dream.”
Donald J. Trump (1946) 45th President of the United States of America
An unequal answer about equal pay (19 November 2015)
2010s, 2015
Ron Paul (1935) American politician and physician
Deficits Make You Poorer http://www.lewrockwell.com/paul/paul238.html (March 15, 2005). <br class="br">2000s, 2001-2005
Carl I. Hagen (1944) Norwegian politician
Speech at the Progress Party national convention of 1987, published in Aftenposten (16 June 2006) http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1354131.ece
“All my trust in the politicians had been rubbed away.”
Kenan Evren (1917–2015) Turkish general
On 17 September 1980 http://books.google.com/books?id=XW7bJ0b3kyEC&pg=PA43&dq=Kenan+Evren&lr=&client=firefox-a&sig=ACfU3U25I1osEHZanEArEIRSNYhVUys7NQ#PPA43,M1, five days after the coup, Evren comments on the political leaders of the standing political parties. <br class="br">From Turkey: Challenges of Continuity and Change by Meliha Benli Altunisik, (p. 43, Routledge, 2005).