Gamblers spend 10 percent less on food; 25 percent less on clothing and 35 percent less on savings

Your social costs, your costs to the taxpayers, are $3 for every $1 of benefits, it's not good economic development

Then they're like addicts; they can't help themselves... They will steal, cheat, embezzle and commit other crimes just to get money to gamble

A 1999 report by a bipartisan federal panel on gambling concluded the United States should put a hold on further casinos until it is clear what the impact is on America

The gambling industry has a tendency to find public figures ... and these persons are used for their public image. These people generally come in for a couple of years and then they sell out and it's 100 percent owned by out-of-state interests

State-sponsored gambling produces no product, no new wealth, and so it makes no genuine contribution to economic development

The military should get rid of video gambling devices on nearly 100 overseas bases and posts