Bankruptcies will be up 18 to 42 percent around racinos areas tracks as people lose their money

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

It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit.

I always try to cheer myself up by singing when i get sad. Most of the time, it turns out that my voice is worse than my problems.

Mothers cowered over their small children, defenceless as their backs blossomed with red lines or swords were sunk into their flesh to reach the young ones they hid.

Poverty, hatred, war, police-criminals, bureaucracy, insanity, all symptoms of The Human Virus.

Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters.

You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy.

You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

People living on atolls like Tuvalu are among the world's most threatened populations.

God is not an objective correlative reality.