My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our economy

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

The Christian shoemaker does his duty not by putting little crosses on the shoes, but by making good shoes, because God is interested in good craftsmanship.

Death of the righteous . . . is not to be feared or shunned. It is the shadowed threshold to the palace of God.

I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest.

Let's create, not destroy. Let's believe and not doubt.

Kings play the fool, and the people suffer for it.

Don't think about what you want, think about what the world needs, and strive to fill that gap. Success is a game of inches.

They do not easily rise whose abilities are repressed by poverty at home. [Lat., Haud facile emergunt quorum virtutibus obstat Res angusta domi.]

Surprise is the mother of panic.

As a rule we perceive what we expect to perceive... The unexpected is usually not received at all.

A true friend will tell you the truth to your face - not behind your back.