Blood Quote by Dave Barry

Gaming is the backbone of Nevada's economy.

— Kenny Guinn

Gaming is the backbone of Nevadas economy.

— Kenny Guinn

There is a respectable body of economic thought that holds that casino gambling is actually economically regressive to a state and a community.

— Mario Cuomo

Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that…

— John Warren Kindt

A politician taking campaign money from gamblers in Nevada is like one taking campaign money from the auto people in Michigan. Gambling is our…

— Paul Laxalt

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

— John Warren Kindt

Gambling has held human beings in thrall for millennia. It has been engaged in everywhere, from the dregs of society to the most respectable…

— Peter L. Bernstein

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

— Marilyn vos Savant

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

Yeah man, they call gambling a disease, but it's the only disease where you can win a bunch of money.

— Norm MacDonald

One of the main reasons that the landscape of financial stuff in America is different is that gambling is illegal there. So there's a…

— John Lanchester