Gambling is a bad deal for taxpayers

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

But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.

If you hate, you lose who you are.

Okay, well...how's that water feeling, then?' 'Excuse me?' 'The Nile warm this time of the year?

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

If you run into a psychic wall face-first, do you wind up with psychic bruises? -Clary, pg.239-

The proper response to difficulty is not to retreat. It is to prevail.

Our studies have shown that China's online censorship systems are by far the most sophisticated and extensive in the world.

I want my family to resemble the family I came from.

I come from an everyday middle class family in India. The film industry reached us only through our television sets and cinema halls.

There is a difference between being a timekeeper and keeping the pulse or being in step with the pulse in the band.