My bottom line is this is no time to be gambling with our…

You never know beforehand what people are capable of, you have to wait, give it time, it's time that rules, time is our gambling…

— Jose Saramago

Gambling is part of the human condition. I love it. I have the best time gambling. I've been winning fortunes, and I've been losing…

— Jerry Lewis

I'm not into big-time gambling.

— Tom Izzo

For every slot machine you add, you lose one job per year from the consumer economy

— John Warren Kindt

It becomes a cannibalization of your pre-existing economy

— John Warren Kindt

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…

— John Warren Kindt

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

— John Warren Kindt

This is an industry that generates addicted gamblers and they are desperate to get money

— John Warren Kindt

Local competing businesses were thereby losing revenue.

— John Warren Kindt

In convenience gambling scenarios, discretionary spending and nondiscretionary addicted gambling dollars were transferred from other forms of consumer expenditures

— John Warren Kindt

Gambling has a zero-sum economic effect in its market and, like legalizing cocaine, the socio-economic costs of legalizing gambling overwhelm the benefits

— John Warren Kindt

Legalized gambling is the leading cause of bankruptcy

— John Warren Kindt

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…

— John Warren Kindt

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

— John Warren Kindt

Taxpayers would likely be responsible for treating addicts

— John Warren Kindt