Quotes about Gambling

"Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized."
-Dean Inge

"He kept gambling even though he didn't need to. But he got that one."
-Randy Carter

"It just changes you. You think who am I really harming if it's drug or gambling money."
-Lila Johnson

"We were working to shut down a gambling casino, and I make no apologies."
-Ralph Reed

"This is the largest organized crime and gambling case in Fairfax County's history."
-Captain David Vice

"Gambling revenues have never been a reliable source of funding for government."
-Carlo Loparo

"I heard one FBI agent at a conference say baseball isn't the national pastime anymore; gambling is."
-Michael Franzese

"Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something."
-Wilson Mizner

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."
-Ambrose Bierce

"It was definitely a gambling addiction that started about four years ago."
-William Dwyer

"The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept an artifact from any company whose business is promoting gambling."
-Jeff Idelson

"This is a classical gambling addiction where the person feels it's over and takes everybody down."
-William Dwyer

"If I have 200 of you in here, [about 50] of you are gambling."
-Michael Franzese

"The Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum will never accept artifacts from any company known to be involved with gambling."
-Jeff Idelson

"Mr. DeLay has not taken any gambling money. He doesn't believe in taking money from gambling interests."
-Shannon Flaherty

"Bethlehem was built without casinos and all the things we have here were developed without gambling money. They will absolutely ruin our city and they will run it to their advantage because they have all the money."
-Bob Fuller

"I find it very strange that a country that so much believes in freedom of expression has a problem with (Internet gambling)."
-Peter Marcus

"We could use some work on our man-to-man coverage. We were gambling with that tonight and got by us a few times."
-Shanna Olson

"It's not gambling, though. We're not teaching people how to gamble."
-Karen Veit

"Yes, I think poker really isn't gambling."
-Al Alvarez

"I don't know how a law will control Internet gambling. If you bring it to America and have regulation, you may be better off."
-Arnie Wexler

"We have adopted a zero-tolerance policy toward gambling."
-Doug Tobin

"I don't know why I'm being attracted to gambling, considering I don't do it myself very often."
-Jesse Ventura

"There's no pee test for gambling. It's like trying to get your hands around a cloud."
-Mark Farrell

"All this is unlawful gambling."
-Marvin Brown

"If I were a gambling person I would bet a nickel that there would be a relationship between how much coffee is consumed and gambling. The studies have not been done on coffee, although they should be."
-Marvin Steinberg

"I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle."
-Mitch Hedberg

"Allowing gambling 24 hours a day in Delaware is not going to stop anyone from going to Harrah's in Chester."
-Claire M. Dematteis