Petition Quotations

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

What Bill Clinton did to us was cruel. The White House gave my attorneys indications that there was a good chance for my clemency to be granted. I had to prepare myself for being released because there was no sign that my petition would be denied.

At least, I'm very happy that it's going out on DVD because if it wasn't for the fans who signed this petition and were really ongoing about how they loved it, we wouldn't see this DVD right now.

In the Lord's Prayer, the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

There are definitely enough people out getting the petition circulating to get enough signatures.

We're going to go ahead and get our petition certified so if we decide to gather signatures, we can do it quickly.

We're putting the petition on our Web site by the end of the week. We're having a fight with the Secretary of State because we want to start (gathering signatures) at 7 p.m. (Tuesday) after the polls close.

What the office does in terms of the pardon process is the pardon petition is submitted with reasons and letters. We contact the sentencing judge and the attorney. We talk to the Department of Corrections, who puts together a package. We do not take a stance. Then the pardon petition is sent to the governor and the Executive Council for a decision.

We are all so impressed with the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, that a petition has been circulated asking that it be made into a movie. We have chosen you to send it to. In hopes that you might also see the possibilities of a movie, we have enclosed a copy of the book.

Therefore, the proclamation has no effect on the Bill of Rights -- specifically the freedom of speech, of expression or of the press and the right of the people to peaceful assembly and to petition the government for redress and grievances.

We are hoping and expecting all of the people who signed the petition will go vote.

We did petition the IHSAA to allow us to play with a sixth man on the floor so we could get equal numbers in terms of total inches and weight, but it was denied.

The prime minister must clarify this matter to the public before we send the petition to the commission amid huge public criticism so far.

She can be reimbursed for the cost of the election if she is not recalled. She can be reimbursed up to 10 cents per voter for authorized expenses, which include money spent on challenging the sufficiency of recall petition and things like campaign literature, ads and campaign headquarters.

On the levy, I personally feel it ought to be a November levy and it ought to be done by initiative petition instead of us standing up here voting for it. You have to get 363 signatures to start the process.

If we have concrete evidence that says that she or anyone else has done anything wrong, we will take action that is appropriate. But a petition is certainly not evidence.

Based on us receiving a petition ... we will then react accordingly.

Basically, it tells groups that if they want to petition Congress in any significant way, they have to tell Congress about it first.

I don't think it is right to use the petition system when you have no intention or likelihood of prevailing. That is not what the system was intended for and to misuse it now is reckless.

If Tim changed his mind, a petition could be filed in the U.S. Supreme Court, but that's not going to happen.

We are filing the petition by early next week.

It is a common injury for athletes, to the groin. I was confident when I put in the petition I was giving 100 percent. I listen to my body every day.

It is for this reason I have instructed lawyers to issue the petition on his behalf,

I think what's perhaps most disheartening about this petition is that these issues were examined recently by the board.

Our petition is not based on innocence. Our petition is based upon rehabilitation of Stanley personally, but it is at least as importantly based on the value of Stanley Williams to the at-risk children in this country.

Our success with that may not be guaranteed, ... but the petition is a good rallying point to let people know we're out here and we're upset.

Our contract has been placed in jeopardy as a result of Delta's petition for bankruptcy protection, ... The fight that has just begun will be intense and difficult.

Our office has 30 days to make sure this petition is significant.

Like people who have swerved over a cliff on a dangerous road, we feel obligated to petition for a hazard sign to protect others.

It feels awesome. When I first put in the petition I believed I would be 100 percent at the Olympics, and I still believe it.

I think one way to look at this is that if this petition is approved, then North Texas consumers are going to feel Katrina's inflated effect on rates in January.

That was the difficulty of it. Lobbying is a First Amendment right and we would not want to in any way chill the desire to petition the government or lobby the government.

That was just awful. Listening to that petition was more important than leaving to go to that press conference.

We're also pleased that the governor vetoed two other pro-homosexual bills. One of them effectively would have silenced pro-family candidates on issues of sexual morality, and the other would have hampered efforts to collect petition signatures to put a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage on the ballot.

We will actually petition the Federal Communications (Commission) to remove the block on jamming cell phones.

We could just petition for a week off. But I don't think the league will let us do that.

We have the right to petition Congress. We think that we shouldn't have to do it just up on Capitol Hill.

We've been flooded by phone calls from people who are saying they've decided not to vote in the primary and they want to know when they can sign the petition to get her on the ballot.

We are organizing and training church and civic groups throughout the state to carry out a targeted door-to-door petition drive.

Wherefore your poor subjects' most humble petition to your highness is, that the laws touching such malefactors may be put in due execution.

The rate at which the community is signing the petition is steady and doesn't vacillate. It's strong and will stay strong all the way through to the end.

We would like finality. We believe that we be will successful at the Supreme Court, once it gets there. We would like him to be released or charged. We think we have the unusual set of circumstances and facts in which the Supreme Court should carefully consider hearing our petition before the appeals court.

We want the government to file a petition against the order to tackle the problem.

We are spending all of our time with this petition drive. We want to make sure we have a party before we get into a campaign.

The petition is scarcely three pages of double-spaced text, ... Faced with such a limited petition, it is unsurprising that the FDA's response focused on the legality of the proposed program under current law.

The petition included the total number of properties on the acreage, ... It did not specify that these two landowners would not be included in the annexation.

The petition doesn't hold water. Your concerns do, though.

The government intends to render my previous petition moot and academic,

The government's petition is certainly questionable about the rationale for expediting this case directly to the Supreme Court. Microsoft does not believe that the government should try to evade the Court of Appeals.

We just launched a petition campaign. We think it's almost unconscionable that as prices rise higher and higher, the state is reaping a windfall while motorists are suffering.

Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.

We just need to find someone to petition for guardianship on our behalf, but no one will touch this case pro bono. The cheapest rate I've found, they wanted $2,000 up front. I don't have $2,000 and my aunt doesn't have $2,000, so there is nothing we can do right now.

This office is required to validate the signatures of Texans who sign a petition for an independent candidate, and given the fact there are multiple individuals vying for a spot on the ballot as an independent, verifying every signature is the surest way to protect the integrity of our elections and confirm the validity of a candidate's name on the ballot.

Everyone who signed this petition knew exactly what they were signing.

Every single one of the petition signers signed an affidavit swearing that they watched the person sign their own personal signature on there. If there were any irregularities, we want them found out, we want that person prosecuted, but we know that also we had a whole bunch of extra signatures.

Based on a petition being received by this organization, our International Committee will meet in St. Louis on Jan. 13 and 14 after each of the disciplines to choose the Olympic team for that discipline. After the ladies' program on the 14th, they will make those type of decisions based on the information that they have.

Common sense should prevail when you read these emails, ... Petition manufacturers for information to ease your mind.

Eliot believes the way you earn the public and the party's support is by working hard, playing by the rules and speaking about the real issues that matter to the people of this state. Eliot learned this first hand. At the 1994 convention he was forced to go the petition route and after years of hard work in 1998 he was able to earn the support of the delegates. It wasn't easy but it was an important part of the process.

Each time the board has declined to offer up recognition. We will file a petition (seeking recognition) with the Michigan Employment Relations Commission. I would encourage you to take action with respect to this matter.

Even if a petition is illegal or conflicts with other Colorado case law, we still have to put it on the ballot,

There's not enough evidence to deny this petition and it breaks my heart,

These provisions, if adopted, would have a chilling effect on the First Amendment rights of the American people. The right of the people to petition the government must not be denied or abridged. Congress can and should take steps to address corruption and the undue influence of special interests without sacrificing the rights of Americans to petition government.

...the State has left little choice, and this petition is consistent with the rules of the federal courts regarding award of attorney's fees to prevailing parties.

Right now there is no sense of urgency and no accountability. When we tell people that they are planning for the evacuation of only 20 percent of the people, they sign the petition right away.

After the end of last business year, Congress passed a new act that split the cap to insure the companies that needed temporary workers in the later half of the year, July, August and September, would have the opportunity to petition and receive them.

The most important thing we can do is use our authority to petition to get access to markets, ... The problem with agriculture in America is serious. In Iowa, it's dead serious.

One has to be concerned with not impeding on two constitutional rights: the right to petition the government, and the other, of course, is free speech. If you make it too difficult, too onerous, for people to express their views, you've gone too far.

This is a silent majority that spoke out. They signed a petition because they were frustrated beyond belief with what was happening in the city. We're mad, we're not taking this anymore. We were saying go away, you're not going to solve anything, so we may as well dissolve.

This corrupt deed by state legislators will energize voters to sign the http://www.VoteYesMarriage.com petition a month from now, to protect marriage rights for one man and one woman once and for all,

They don't have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a clemency petition to President George W. Bush.

This petition should be a wake-up call to those claiming that the Columbia Basin salmon can be recovered without significant change. We should focus on identifying solutions to the challenges we face, such as improving water use efficiency and finding alternative means of providing the economic benefits of the lower Snake River dams.

This petition seeks USDA action to force zoos to comply with the Animal Welfare Act, either by providing environments-hundreds of acres-that meet elephants' needs or by transferring them to sanctuaries with the space and natural habitat necessary for elephants to thrive.

This petition asks Missourians to peg Missouri constitutional law to what some federal judge in San Francisco or New York says it is, ... I'm stunned that they would include such a wide-open and obvious flaw.

This might not exactly be the apology I had been seeking, but it is still a step forward. I will now wait for the outcome of my petition in the Pakistani Supreme Court.

They're going to go door to door. They're going to go business to business. They're hanging out on street corners. We don't want to squeak by in this petition drive. We want to be in overdrive.

It's a different petition this time. We've made sure it has sensible safeguards built in.

I told him since the petition was already in court, he should ask it to be heard. Or he could activate lawyers to file a fresh petition. If parliament had been reinstated, the king couldn't have sacked him and begun direct rule.

It's a loose group of individuals who were sitting around and thought it would be a good idea to do this. They're not organized, and we asked them to withdraw the petition because we want this to be a totally South Dakota operation. They were leaning towards doing that.

The attorney general's decision to certify this question for the ballot was based solely on the constitution and does not reflect any policy views he may have on the issue. He certified this petition after carefully considering the arguments made by its opponents.

The agenda is comprised of mainly routine things. This group will be talking about how to petition DOT to add other projects. Our appeal relative to 501 is to get the project funded.

The VB6 petition is the dilemma you end up in when you have a large installed base you're trying to move. There's no question .Net is a very productive system. The only way you can stay 100 percent backward-compatible is not to change your technology base.

It's not about everybody signing a petition against climate change that's useless, ... The effort needs to be applied town by town, building by building, so that as an example, we can see the greening of churches, synagogues and mosques, making those buildings themselves more responsible and more economical to operate.

At this time individuals are working on getting a petition signed to get on the next ballot. However, this is not a deal-breaker if it doesn't go through.

The copy of the disbarment petition was mailed to him and we think we have a good mail service (address).

I know that the parole board is anxious to receive this petition and I hope to allay their anxieties as soon as possible.

If out of concern over cloning, the U.S. Congress succeeds in criminalizing embryonic stem-cell research that might bring treatments for Alzheimer's disease or diabetes - and Dr. Fukuyama lent his name to a petition that supported such laws - there would be real victims: present and future sufferers of those diseases.

In the First Amendment, people have the right to petition the government. That is a constitutional right and we take that obligation very seriously.

In accordance with our established rules, any championship-level athlete who has qualified for the 2006 U.S. Championships has a right to petition for an Olympic spot due to injury or illness. We trust the outcome will be the naming of the best possible U.S. Olympic figure skating team.

Clearly, 2,000 people can't all be stupid, which is what petition organizers keep saying. This process was flawed from the beginning, driven more by extreme politics than by the grassroots. We know we can't stop the petition from advancing to the Legislature, but this is wrong, plain and simple.

Certainly the petition is one way to get the public involved. I'm not sure what the ultimate goal of the petition is.

I certainly appreciate his stance and his affirmation of my position to petition the school board for redress of something that is definitely a concern for many, many parents -- thousands of parents here.

I feel I'm capable of being 100 percent for the Olympics, and that's why I put this petition in -- I feel I have a chance to win.

All I know is the people in charge of the petition drive all have smiles on their faces.

All I know is that he was wrongly accused of some sort of sexual harassment, and that they were going to evict him from it, and that 18 other people signed a petition saying that he was very helpful there and a very nice guy, and that it was only a few who were trying to get him out of there, and I guess he just lost it,

(The EOEA office) has 20 days to review the residents' petition and decide whether it triggers a MEPA review. They make the determination on whether (the residents') arguments merit a review.

The format was not that critical, because we realize the freeholders were not bound by mandate to act on a petition of this nature anyway. We simply wanted to drive home the idea that the voting taxpayers of Middlesex County want a choice of how their money is spent when it comes to an extravagance like a baseball stadium.

The city had a meeting with the committee that turned the petition in and outlined the things that were done wrong. Those things have been corrected. The new petition will reflect that and we will get it right this time.

The matter before the court was whether Microsoft could be held in contempt for violating a consent decree entered in 1995. The court denied the Justice Department's petition for contempt; the case should have ended there. But on its own initiative, the court proceeded to treat the matter as a tying case and, without giving Microsoft notice or an opportunity to defend itself, issued a preliminary injunction.

The members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles are fully aware of the responsibility we have in rendering our votes as part of the executive clemency review process. I can say, unequivocally, that the board's decision not to recommend clemency was reached after a complete and unbiased review of the petition and evidence submitted.