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

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

Gambling interests hire lots of economists to do impact studies, but what you need is cost-benefit analysis, and you'll never see the industry finance those

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

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

Studies in Australia have verified this drain on the economy by video gambling machines

Every video [slot] gambling machine takes $60,000 out of the consumer economy