Lotteries boost state revenues in the short run but don't feed the economy in the long run

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

It’s entirely on our children to build their best futures. Not on us, parents. And we should be imprinting this message on our children’s brains from as early as possible.

The secret of happiness is to be loving, cheerful, and appreciative.

It was hard to trust someone enough to let them all the way in when I didn't think they deserved to be there. -Cora

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

But I just think I was lucky enough to figure out early on that I wanted to do comedy, so that's what I put all my effort into.

Never give up on a good thing, never give up, never give up!

Frustrated love has been the incentive for many great works.

The government must pursue a course of complete neutrality toward religion.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?