Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

The gambling interests like to point to the construction jobs, but those jobs go away

I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area

A study in Illinois in the mid-1990s found that 65 percent of businesses were hurt by the proximity of gambling

Bankruptcies and addictions increase in areas with casinos

Utah sells itself to Fortune 500 companies as a noncasino state where employers don't have to be concerned about absenteeism and other problems associated with gambling

Crime goes up 10 percent due to the gambling by the third year after racinos or slot machines are open, and then it continues upward after that

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers

The ABCs of legalized gambling - addictions, bankruptcies and crime

There would be economic disruption in Omaha from expanded gambling...You would just be moving Chernobyl closer to the population center

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

I don't know, Alexander, sometimes it gets so bad you can't think of nothing better to do than make it worse.

We're all eaters. That's our bond. Let's be real.

President Jimmy Carter inherited an impossible situation - and he and his advisers made the worst of it.

Be yourself, because an original is better than a copy.

When love congeals It soon reveals The faint aroma of performing seals, The double-crossing of a pair of heels. I wish I were in love again!

Give them quality. That's the best kind of advertising.

I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.