Robert J. Bentley Quotes

I've hit the Pick 6 for a hundred thousand a couple of times. A few more for 60, 70 thousand.

I figure you have the same chance of winning the lottery whether you play or not.

My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.

The only lottery I've ever won was a $100 scratch-off card at age 16, and the 7-Eleven clerk who sold it to me said I was too young to claim my winnings.

Alabama is better than to depend on gambling to fund its government.

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

We are already too dependent on gambling revenue. If we continue, we will soon be owned by them.

In twenty years, the Lottery has raised over $1.4 billion. It has been run successfully and efficiently.

[Referring to State lotteries:] People have a tendency to try and get something for nothing.

We don't want gambling income. We'll find some other way to finance our state.

Taxes are the lifeblood of Government

The lottery is a government institution & the poor its best patrons.

The revenue of the state is the state.

I have won this lottery. It's a gigantic lottery, and it's called Amazon.com. And I'm using my lottery winnings to push us a little further into space.

What has six balls and screws Texans? The Texas Lottery.

Taxes are the sinews of the state.

The state has been living on a revenue which was being produced in the private sphere for private purposes and had to be deflected from these purposes by political force. The theory that construes taxes on the analogy of club dues or of the purchase of the services of, say, a doctor only proves how far removed this part of the social sciences is from scientific habits of mind.

Another strange notion pervading whole peoples is that the State has money of its own; and nowhere is this absurdity more firmly fixed than in America. The State has no money. It produces nothing. It existence is purely parasitic, maintained by taxation; that is to say, by forced levies on the production of others. 'Government money,' of which one hears so much nowadays, does not exist; there is no such thing.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

George W. Bush even stopped in Pennsylvania to try his hand at the lotto and gave up when he could only think of the numbers 4 and 17

Paying tax is not a punishment. It's a responsibility.

Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical.