Generally, traditional businesses were slow to recognize the way in which legalized gambling captured dollars from across the entire spectrum of the various consumer markets, but now they know

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

Used every man according to his capacity.

You can never truly become great if you do not discover your purpose in life.

Parrots mimic their owners. Their owners consider that a sign of intelligence.

Life is a teacher. We are the student.

In California, the fabulously rich support the poor with government jobs, paid for by the middle class which is now living in Arizona.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

Progress should have stopped when man invented the bicycle.

We're actually just moving one type of deficit to another. But, the problem with this second type of deficit is that you drive on it and then it falls down.

The absent partie is still faultie.

Members are more likely to seek counsel from leaders from whom they feel sincere love emanating.