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“People will spend a tremendous amount of money in casinos, money they normally would spend on refrigerators or a new car. Local businesses will suffer because they'll lose consumer dollars to casinos.”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

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

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“Although crime and corruption decreases within a one-mile radius of a casino, it increases 10 percent within a 35-mile radius by the third year the casino is open.”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“And as far as jobs go, for every one job that the casino creates, one is lost in the 35-mile feeder market”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“I would hate to see the state of Wisconsin make another mistake and locate another casino in a high-density population area”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“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”

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Author:John Warren Kindt

“Not everyone supported gaming, but we had a general meeting and a vote on whether to pursue a casino or not and the tribe voted yes, and as a tribal representative to the state legislature, I had to represent that decision.”

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Author:Donna M. Loring

“The Penobscot took an initial poll of people in the state to determine if there was support for opening a casino, and the poll came back very favorable. As we moved forward, a commercial was aired that said if the tribe opened a casino the law would allow kids to gamble and had an image of a kid pulling a slot machine. Here it was our idea and we got massacred, and someone else ended up with what we wanted; it's sort of like history repeating itself.”

“Donald Trump he wanted casino gambling in Florida. Yes, you did.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“You [Donald Trump] wanted it [casino in Florida] and you didn`t get it. I was opposed to casino gambling before, during and after. And that`s not - I`m not going to be bought by anyone.”

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Author:Jeb Bush

“The only years [of Donald Trump's] that anybody's ever seen were a couple of years when he had to turn them over to state authorities when he was trying to get a casino license, and they showed he didn't pay any federal income tax.”

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Author:Hillary Clinton

“Most banks - with Deutsche Bank at the top of the spectrum here - have decided that they can't make money lending to barrowers anymore, so they're going to the second business plan: They lend money to casino capitalists. That is, to people who want to gamble on derivatives.”

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Author:Michael Hudson

“There is plenty of work to do, but big business isn't investing in rebuilding a green economy for the 21st century. Instead, they put their money into a gigantic financial casino, and when that led to catastrophe in 2008-9, they made us pay for it.”

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Author:Kshama Sawant

“Al Capone's my uncle. The old days were a lot different. The Latin Casino was the big time. When I got there I figured that I was doing pretty good, because remember, I started in nothing but after hours joints. I can't even name them now, but that's how I got noticed.”

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Author:Don Rickles

“If you want to know what it will be like when we are more deeply into the horizontal, simply go to one of the Indian casinos. The Native Americans, who stand for vertical thinking more than anyone else in our culture, have been setting up totally flat casinos for honkies.”

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Author:Robert Bly

“I used to want to gamble, too, until I was 20 and could actually go to a casino. Then I wasn't so crazy about the attitude.”

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Author:Carrie Fisher

“Disney is one of the best hotel companies in the world. Yet they have never and will never open a casino on the Vegas strip.”

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Author:Simon Sinek

“One doesn't like instabilities in markets; they may be damaging, but probably not fatal, as the October '87 crash showed. It turned out to be essentially inconsequential. So if that's true, I'm not very worried about the welfare of those who are investing any more than I am about the welfare of those who go into casinos.”

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Author:Kenneth Arrow

“I think a lot of people like to gamble, and they don't want to go to the casino to gamble. Sometimes they want to do it in the privacy of their home. They can't concentrate the way they want to in a gambling casino.”

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Author:Larry Holmes

“Whether I make two dollars or no dollars, it's better than losing. I've got enough people playing the games at the casino that I don't lose any money. So it's good for me, and it's fun.”

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Author:Larry Holmes

“We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being recorded. Everything is on audio. The truth is we all have access to everybody else's information.”

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Author:Ashton Kutcher

“Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.”

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Author:Samantha Bee

“The best part about poker is there's no down side.”

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Author:Samantha Bee

“Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.”

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Author:George Ade

“Understand why casinos and racetracks stay in business - the gambler always loses over the long term.”

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Author:Marilyn vos Savant

“Over the objections, where they sound like squealing pigs, over the objections of Romney and all his allies, we passed some of the toughest Wall Street regulations in history, turning Wall Street back into the allocator of capital it always has been and no longer a casino. And they want to repeal it.”

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Author:Joe Biden

“The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.”

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Book:A Cynic Looks at Life

Source: A Cynic Looks at Life

“There are many comedians who are afraid to work outside the coasts and the casinos because they're afraid they'll bomb.”

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Author:Elayne Boosler

“With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.”

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Author:Richard Branson

“Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos.”

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Author:Thomas Sowell

“Let’s not mince words: the inside of the Sydney casino looks as if Vegas had an illegitimate child with Liberace’s underpants, and that child fell down a staircase and hit its head on the edge of a spade.”

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Book:A Fraction of the Whole

Source: A Fraction of the Whole

“In the new American ghetto, the nightmare engine is bubble economics, a kind of high-tech casino scam that kills neighborhoods just like dope does, only the product is credit, not crack or heroin. It concentrates the money of the population in just a few hands with brutal efficiency, just like narco-business, and just as in narco-business the product itself, debt, steadily demoralizes the customer to the point where he’s unable to prevent himself from being continually dominated.”

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Author:Matt Taibbi

“Investment banking has, in recent years, resembled a casino, and the massive scale of gambling losses has dragged down traditional activities as banks try to rebuild their balance sheets.”

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Author:Vince Cable

“When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done”

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Author:John Maynard Keynes

“Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”

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Author:Seneca the Younger

“It can be argued that man's instinct to gamble is the only reason he is still not a monkey up in the trees.”

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Author:Mario Puzo

“The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.”

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Author:Bret Harte

“True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest is he who knows just when to rise and go home.”

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Author:John Hay

“The champion makes his own luck.”

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Author:Earl Blaik

“A dollar won is twice as sweet as a dollar earned.”

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Author:Paul Newman

“The urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.”

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Author:Heywood Hale Broun

“No battle is worth fighting except the last one.”

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Author:Enoch Powell

“So what? A lobbyist cheated Indian tribes out of $25 million then laundered their money through phony Christian charities trying to stop other Indian tribes from getting casinos [on screen: 'Thou Shalt Not Compete'] and bribe congressmen in the process. Know what I call that? I call that business as usual in Washington. [on screen: 'Screwing Indians']”

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Author:Stephen Colbert

“You can try to trick the people and come out wearing a fedora and a tuxedo but that's not me. I was born in the late '70s, I wear jeans. I don't hang out in casinos. The lifestyle isn't my thing. I don't drink martinis and I don't smoke cigars.”

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Author:Michael Buble

“People go to casinos for the same reason they go on blind dates - hoping to hit the jackpot. But mostly, you just wind up broke or alone in a bar.”

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Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“The best bet you get is an even break.”

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Author:Franklin P. Adams

“I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.”

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Author:Morgan Brittany

“There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.”

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Author:Toru Hashimoto

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