Mike C. Erickson > Quotes

“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, but dumb enough to think it’s important. — Senator Eugene McCarthy “Dick,”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello

“Without education we are in horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. — G.K. Chesterton”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello

“Pianist in a Bordello is a rollicking good read because of Mike Erickson's finely tuned sense of an increasingly absurd political process.” —”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello

“Political promises are much like marriage vows. They are made at the beginning of the relationship between candidate and voter, but are quickly forgotten. — Dick Gregory”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello

“The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate. — Doug Larson”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello

“History doesn’t repeat itself—at best it sometimes rhymes. — Mark Twain”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello

“Some of you have read my autobiography. As Gandhi said, ‘Happiness is when what you say and what you do are in harmony.”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello

“When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized, the Lord doesn’t work that way. So I just stole one and asked Him for forgiveness. — Emo Philips”
― Mike C. Erickson, Pianist in a Bordello