"We are not trying to treat Indian tribes for poker playing any differently than anybody else."
"If you don't want to let the citizens within your boundaries play poker for money on the Internet, you simply opt out so they can't play."
"We absolutely don't want to set up a system where somebody in this audience can play poker online for money if their governor says it is OK and play against a computer."
"Would the gentleman yield the time he doesn't have?"
"I want to refocus. You know, we are kind of letting the tail wag the dog here."
"Poker is the all-American game. President Richard Nixon financed his first congressional campaign partially with poker winnings from World War II."
"Consequently, we passed the bill or law several years ago that is unenforceable, UIGEA. It is a bad law regardless of which side of the debate that you are on."
"I think we should have a robust debate."
"Now, you can get 1,000, 2,000, so anybody with any sense at all who--to use your term, Professor--a recreational poker player, you are going to be an absolute idiot to go online and get into a high-do..."
"What we want to prevent is somebody using it unfairly, and in a real-world situation when you walk into the casino, you can't take a pocket computer with you."
"Well, thank you, Congresswoman Noem and Congressman Hurt for introducing this and being here."