"My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth there's hardly any difference."
— Truth

January 1, 1970

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Harry Truman, as quoted in Esquire, Vol. 76 (1971), also in Truman's Crises : A Political Biography of Harry S. Truman (1980) by Harold Foote Gosnell, p. 9; sometimes paraphrased: Being a politician is like being a piano player in a whorehouse.