Legalized gambling cost taxpayers $3 for every $1 in state revenue to government

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

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

God is not sitting in heaven thinking about how to make you comfortable. Your comfort might actually be his least concern.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

We have rejected such spectacles as the Coliseum. How then, when we do not even look on killing lest we should contract guilt and pollution, can we put people to death?

Your mom isn’t going to let me step foot inside this place. I’ve seen the gun she keeps on the top shelf of the pantry.

Writing has become my great joy - I simply love it.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

If the universe is everything, and scientists say that the universe is expanding, what is it expanding into?

I got out of high school, bought a recording studio and started operating it as an engineer and a producer.

Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.