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

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

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

When the money is not spent on cars and refrigerators and is instead dropped into a slot machine, it leaves the economy

Develop yourself from practice to become exceptional. Aim to be the blue ribbon best.

In the sacred-time, all beatitudes manifest.

I'm a big romantic, traditional, cheesy guy.

I didn't know I had this many fans in Puerto Rico. I'm going to carry this memory to my grave.

Most leaders are indispensable, but to produce a major social change, many ordinary people must also be involved.

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.

Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

Why was it that pride and foolishness were so often close companions?

Humans live in a world where the weak are dominant. This is a terrible insult to our animal nature, a sort of perversion or a deep contradiction.

I guess I'm destined to be loveless