No reputable economist anywhere believes it's gambling an economic tool

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

Change isn’t closing the door on the old, it is opening the door on the new.

Don't let anyone tell you your idea is stupid. Do you know how many successful people had people tell them that, and they still made it?

I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

It is not a question of living dangerously. That formula is too arrogant, too presumptuous. I don't care much for bull-fighters. It's not the danger I love. I know what I love. It is life itself.

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.

Grab a brew... don't cost nothin'.

Being a mum is something that's never bothered me too much. I have never felt a strong need to have children, but I am not averse to it either.

Being patient does not mean being silent.