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

The smartest thing legislatures can do is get rid of lotteries and get those dollars buying consumer goods and get the sales tax revenues from that

In permitting gambling enterprises to flourish in the United States and abroad, the United States undermines global socio-economic stability in contravention of its international obligations

You bring in gambling into a major population base, and the more people you have going into a casino, the more people you have hooked on gambling

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

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

27 percent to 55 percent of casino revenues come from problem or pathological gamblers