“We’re just a group of citizens that care about our community. We fought for our community, we took on a federal agency and the federal government and we won.”
—David Littlefield, plaintiff in the lawsuit challenging the legality of the Interior Department putting land into trust for Mashpee Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts
“We are dead, smack, right back where we were. For the time being, we’re just going to sort of sit tight.”
—Stephen Crosby, Massachusetts Gaming Commission chairman, reacting to a court judgment throwing out the federal land-into-trust decision for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe, threatening their casino in Taunton
“Representatives of the Enterprise Rancheria say they’re fed up. We wonder why they wouldn’t have been a long, long time ago. They’ve been stymied in their quest to build a casino in Yuba County for going on two decades.”
—Editorial, Appeal-Democrat, calling on residents of Yuba County, northern California who have for 20 years opposed the Fire Mountain Casino by the Enterprise Rancheria to back off and let it happen
“A long time ago when I reached out to different artists and their managers they would say ‘Macau? Where’s Macau?’ They’d never heard of it before. The first artist I booked for Macau took six months of convincing before they eventually came. We want Macau to be known for being the party capital of Asia.”
—Paco Chan, booking agent, on Macau’s emerging entertainment scene
“Some dealers complained that the gambler threw cards in their faces. Others report having been spat at, or even being slapped in the face. Whether it’s from the gaming companies or the government, there should be a mechanism in place that ban the gamblers from entering the casino again. We don’t know if they will again target the dealer.”
—Choi Kam Fu, director general, Macau Gaming Enterprises Staff’s Association, who says surly gamblers should be banned from the casinos
“Does a guy feel comfortable betting $500,000 a hand in Phnom Penh or on the beach in Danang? Are they going to Solaire to bet $600,000 a hand in the baccarat room?”
—Mark Brown, CEO, Best Sunshine, the temporary casino on Saipan that is raking in more than $1 billion per month in VIP table roll
