Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

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

Our perception is our window to the world, and we need to wipe the dust off of our window often so we can continue to see through it clearly.

Don't let the difficulties that come with your dream blur your vision of the prize ahead.

The first time you say something, it's heard. The second time, it's recognized, and the third time it's learned.

One does not make wars less likely by formulationg rules of warfare... war cannot be humanized. It can only be eliminated.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good.

Education is a vaccine for violence.

Very, very few entrepreneurs who accept a 51 percent partner in a new venture will get rich if they are also expected to run it. Control is mandatory.

You run risks. That's the plain truth. You run risks and, even in the most unlikely places, you are subject to destiny's whims.

Even if everyone is doing it, wrong is never right