In December 2004, the Osage Nation of Oklahoma won its battle in Congress to determine our own laws and citizenship, ... It was the end of a long road to independence for our tribe, but the beginning of what we feel is most precious: our sovereignty. I am often asked if gaming has taken over the national debate on Indians in America. But gaming is an extension of our sovereignty, not the other way around and we cannot allow others to frame our issues for us. As Indian people, sovereignty comes first.
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The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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Can you support the expense of a husband, hussy, in gaming, drinking and whoring? Have you money enough to carry on the daily quarrels of man and wife about who shall squander most?
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Man is a gaming animal. He must always be trying to get the better in something or other.
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If you play bridge badly you make your partner suffer, but if you play poker badly you make everybody happy.
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Regarding the placement of a casino in Fort Smith by the UKB in Oklahoma, judgment should be reserved until the land is placed in trust. In general, the process is long. We've had one in process for seven years and that's not for gaming. If it's for gaming, that's a separate process and it's more difficult.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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With the perverse logic of a degenerate gambler he figured God was testing his faith.
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In the case of an earthquake hitting Las Vegas, be sure to go straight to the Keno Lounge. Nothing ever gets hit there.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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I recently learned something quite interesting about video games. Many young people have developed incredible hand, eye, and brain coordination in playing these games. The air force believes these kids will be our outstanding pilots should they fly our jets.
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I've been on such a losing streak that if I had been around I would have taken General Custer and given points.
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that is the way to bet.
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Senator, my offer is this: nothing. Not even the price of the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.
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Never bet on baseball.
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One of the worst things that can happen to you in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.
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The losses as well as the prizes must be drawn from the cheating lottery of life.
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The concept of a Nash equilibrium n-tuple is perhaps the most important idea in noncooperative game theory.
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I came to the conclusion long ago that all life is six to five against.
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Smith and Wesson or a Colt always beat four aces.
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Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.
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If this magazine was on fire, I wouldn't even piss on it.
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Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.
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In a bet there is a fool and a thief.
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There are two great pleasures in gambling: that of winning and that of losing.
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Marrying to increase love is like gaming to become rich; alas, you only lose what little stock you had before.
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Nobody has ever bet enough on a winning horse.
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Gambling is the son of avarice and the father of despair.
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The best throw of the dice is to throw them away.
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There is but one good throw upon the dice, which is, to throw them away.
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