Clothing sales plummet, rent delinquencies mount and even grocery sales shrink as gamblers, having tapped out their entertainment budgets, dip into dollars set aside for necessities

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

Reflection may be essential to a scholar, but it’s taboo in social intercourse.

The only thing I cannot predict is the future

Thin people are beautiful but fat people are adorable.

It is the hope of the European Union that Ariel Sharon will keep the peace process alive and continue the dialogue according to the wishes of all the parties involved.

That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.

With every experience, you alone are painting your own canvas, thought by thought, choice by choice.

I would love to see some comedies about loser women.

I keep a quotes journal - of every sentence that I've wanted to remember from my reading of the past 30 years.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

When there is freedom of speech, I've found that the majority of people really have nothing to say.