What we really need is a federal intervention plan, which calls for a moratorium on gambling in the U.S.

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

While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of mans humanity to a man.

Without Ruth’s partnership and encouragement over the years, my own work would have been impossible. We were called by God as a team.

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.

Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

It gives me more breadth as an actor and as an artist to not be pigeonholed.

We can leave a place behind, or we can stay in that place and leave our selfishness behind.

I always called him the Dizzy Dean of music, he was so belligerent and braggadocio... But one thing I always noticed about Jelly, he would back everything he said by what he could do.

Pain isn't always the enemy.

I can train a monkey to wave an American flag. That does not make the monkey patriotic.

On a ship thats made of paper, I would sail the seven seas. (Just to be with you)