"Americans now waste $4 billion a year on this pernicious form of gambling." - New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

"If American citizens or legal residents want to gamble, let them. Why do you care?" - Massachusetts Rep. Barney Frank (left)

"The feeling I had when winning that huge jackpot is indescribable. I was stunned! I couldn't sleep for a few days. I was way too excited. This only happens once in a lifetime." - Lasse Skov-Skov, a car dealership supervisor from Norway who won $357,089.04 at jackpotcity.com

"Virtual casinos are the hard-core crack cocaine of gambling." - Dr. Howard Schaeffer, Harvard Center for Addictive Studies

"For addicts, net gambling is the great rock-candy mountain. It's like an alcoholic being given a bathroom in which the taps run with iced vodka." - The Guardian Unlimited

"Am I addicted to [Web gambling]? No. If I don’t have the recreational funds to gamble I don’t do it. Period." - 'Double Diamond,' a 48-year-old financial analyst from Dallas, Texas who gambles online

"People are betting billions of dollars online and they've no idea who they're giving their money to. They could be betting with the Mafia, for all they know." - Damian Aspinall of Aspinalls.com

"I'm quite confident that all of the major software companies (like Microgaming, Boss Media, CryptoLogic, Playtech, Real Time Gaming, World Gaming, IQ-Ludorum), are playing fairly." - Gambling consultant Michael Shackleford aka The Wizard of Odds

"Although blatant ripoffs can never be ruled out, there have been surprisingly few." - Bill Haywood, author BeatWebCasinos.com

"There is a clean nexus, a connection, between Internet gambling and money laundering of terrorism activities." - Rep. Marge Roukema (R-New Jersey)

"The idea is ridiculous. Even the FBI and CIA have said there is no evidence that Islamic terrorists have ever had any connection with online gambling." - Professor I. Nelson Rose, a leading authority on gambling law

"Too many people who disapprove of gambling want to ban it. It's not generally been the policy of the U.S. government to tell people how to spend their money." - Rep. Barney Frank (D-Massachusetts)

"I play my blackjack for fun and one of the things that I like about it now is that they've speeded it up and you can get into it real quick and it pays quick." - Former heavyweight champ Larry Holmes talking about his Internet casino, betwiththechamp.com