In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

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

Great joy comes from God.

everyone thinks that other places is more fun than staying at home, but at the end..you will be coming home, because..that's where you belong to..

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

When one's thoughts are neither frivolous nor flippant, when one's thoughts are neither stiff-necked nor stupid, but rather, are harmonious -- they habitually render physical calm and deep insight.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

It may be easier to get forgiveness than permission, but trust is harder to get back than both.

You should not feel that your path is the only right path and that other paths are wrong. You mustn't bear malice toward others.

He's pulling the load of an ox and walking on eggshells.

At the end of the day, it's, 'Can we contribute as a group?' There are things that are going to happen.