Petitions Quote by Shane MacGowan

I think e-mail petitions are an illusion. It gives people the illusion that they're participating in some meaningful political action.

— Howard Rheingold

Online petitions are built around getting as many signatures as possible. But the experience of taking them and forgetting about them degrades the importance.

— Margaret D. Klein

How happy it is to believe, with a steadfast assurance, that our petitions are heard even while we are making them; and how delightful…

— William Cowper

No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am…

— Voltairine de Cleyre

What, more petitions! Won't you be, and stay, intimidated? You must really annoy Sen. Dodd. Here it is [my signature], and I hope it…

— Edward Condon

We now have over a hundred thousand people who are signed up on our campaign and our petition to open up the debate, and…

— Jill Stein

There's always the danger that people will simply sign online petitions, the way they used to just mail in checks, and there's the greater…

— Bill McKibben

It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and…

— Caleb Cushing

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon…

— Caleb Cushing

I love the protest signs protected by the First Amendment - some of them humorous, some of them passionate, some factual, some entirely incorrect…

— Jennifer Granholm

I don't think there's any perfect way to protest.

— Megan Rapinoe

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot…

— Caleb Cushing