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

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

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

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

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

Excuses can be your servant, but you must never become their slave.

The mystery of existence is the connection between our wins and our losses.

Claiming that you have got the truth wrapped up does breed violence and intolerance.

If you don't feel you're the best, then you shouldn't be doing your job. No one else cares if you don't care about yourself.

We live in a moment that is pregnant with possibility.

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.

People know I'm smart. And people know that, whether it's SNL or Jimmy Kimmel, it's a trend to take the piss out of celebrity -- just as much of a trend as wearing a gray hoodie or driving a Prius.

Religious belief has made me comfortable with ambiguity.

The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages.