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Kevin McCarthy just kicked me and @RepSwalwell off the Intelligence Committee, this is petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump. If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out just how wrong he is. I will always defend our democracy. – Kevin McCarthy	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. – George Carlin	added by JokerGem 1 year ago
We don't play those petty games. But to insult us, that we're either being racist or we're being uncaring. That is insulting, the governor owes our community an apology, and I'll be waiting to hear that. – Craig Johnson	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
Spare me that bullshit, it just shows that nothing is above petty partisan politics, that at the end of the day, all that matters is the letter next to your name. – Peter Meijer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’m disappointed. I would have thought the RA would have stayed above it all given their position in world golf, (It’s) petty, as all I have done is promote and grow the game of golf globally, on and off the golf course, for more than four decades. – Greg Norman	Found on FOX News 1 year ago
My rank was E-5, or Second Class Petty Officer. During my five years of service, I worked on the tarmac, in aviation logistics, was on the ship's security defense team and the repair locker fire team( firefighting and damage control). Definitely a variety of jobs and experiences, which I am thankful for. – Jennifer Marshall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
From a landlord’s perspective, from storeowner’s perspective, we’re terrified of this, his policies and what not. Armed robbery of a store is now a petty larceny? What insanity is this? this guy, his rap sheet is a mile long, he should have been behind bars. Assault? Menacing? How is he out? This is outrageous. – Brian Chin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Far too many elected officials have shown over the past two years that the 'consent of the governed' is little more than an inconvenient speed bump on the road to advancing their unpopular agendas. Mocking and dismissing the concerns of the community may be cathartic for petty dictators, but it is not a path to electoral success. – Nicole Neily	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
At the precinct level, someone comes in for a petty theft, we're at the policing level, you identify that they have a mental health issue, instead of locking them up -- let's defer prosecution, let's have a local community-based organization that deals with mental health illnesses handle it right at the precinct -- that's the coordination that we need, there's no reason to put someone( with) mental health illness in Rikers Island, Rikers Island's Rikers Island. – Eric Adams	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Part of field training is that a probationer would make numerous contacts with the public throughout the day ... We ran the vehicle and confirmed that the registration was expired and that the registered owner had a petty misdemeanor type warrant for some type of drug offense. – Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
He terminated us because we were appointed by President Trump, there was no assessment of who we are and what our contributions have been and what our background is. … I think it's petty, very partisan and simply wrong. – Jack Keane	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The No. 45 is a special number to Kyle Petty and the entire Petty family, we look forward to seeing The No. 45 back on the race track contending for race wins and championships. Seeing The No. 45 compete again, under the 23XI Racing banner, with Kurt behind the wheel, is exciting for us. – Kyle Petty	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I know some people will say its petty, it's no big deal, but again I feel like that's how small it starts, at one point, for Addison Rae or Charli D'Amelio it was just a dance, just a missing name in the body of the video. And the next day it's an overnight sensation. – Erick Louis	Found on CNN 2 years ago
First offense, good behavior: When a person commits a crime no matter how petty or heinous, it requires justice. The crimes that you committed are no less egregious because it was your first offense, and even though you supposedly have good behavior it does not excuse the crimes you've committed. Therefore when a person commits crimes it is required that they suffer fair penalties. First offenses and good behavior does not excuse what ever it is that you've done. My life is no less valuable just because it is your first offense, the crimes you committed are no more justifiable just because you have good behavior. If you unjustly take my life, if you murder me, it wouldn't be fair to me if you get a reduced sentence for a first offense, and it wouldn't be fair to me if you got out early on good behavior. I lost my life forever because of you and so you deserve to forever lose yours. Only if you had some sort of a just cause for taking my life could you be excused. Only if you met certain eternal probationary standards set by me might you be forgiven. – Ryan Pack	added by littleking 2 years ago
We also have to continue to impress upon everyone… to really lift up how we can be better and how we can be a place where we don't continuously allow people that we know to be so weak that they will shoot six people, that they be so weak, they're afraid that their basic little conflict that could have bruised their ego for some petty dispute can end in the loss of life. – Brandon Scott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We're being smashed in as a one-two punch. There's low-level petty crime that's happening to our community. We're being targeted as easy targets, but at a bigger scale, racist rhetoric from the pandemic has targeted us as being' the reason for coronavirus,' and so Asians across the board have been targeted by racial slurs, being attacked, being pushed around, being spat on. – Daniel Wu	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I would definitely call it petty and irresponsible, but United States is not endangering the security of the United States. – Mark Cancian	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Tom Petty was one of my guitar students; I knew Duane, and Stephen and I had a band. When he left, Bernie Leadon moved to Gainesville. His father was a nuclear physicist who was sent to the University of Florida to start their nuclear research facility, so he and I became friends. – Don Felder	added by RobertHaigh 3 years ago
Here's a guy who will say anything to stay in office, lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because Lindsey Graham traded Lindsey Graham moral compass for petty political gain. – Jaime Harrison	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Do we want to be in a world where machine security guards are watching our every move and blowing the whistle on every petty violation of every law, rule, statute or guideline? that's potentially a nightmare vision. – Jay Stanley	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
He has to put the country before himself, he has to put Americans before electioneering. He has to remind himself every day,' What can I do today to prevent more lives being killed ?' Not' How can I score more petty points.'. – Piers Morgan	Found on CNN 4 years ago
I find it petty and partisan and completely unhelpful to the American population to have a former vice president, who was here for eight years, in his bunker in Wilmington just lobbing criticisms, reading from prepared notes and not that well. – Kellyanne Conway	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We will pledge to rise above petty factionalism and do justice for our institutions, for our states, and for the nation. – Mitch McConnell	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Given his service to our Nation, a promotion back to the rank and pay grade of Chief Petty Officer is justified. – White House	Found on CNN 4 years ago

Kevin McCarthy just kicked me and @RepSwalwell off the Intelligence Committee, this is petty, political payback for investigating Donald Trump. If he thinks this will stop me, he will soon find out just how wrong he is. I will always defend our democracy.

– Kevin McCarthy

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

– George Carlin

added by JokerGem
1 year ago

We don't play those petty games. But to insult us, that we're either being racist or we're being uncaring. That is insulting, the governor owes our community an apology, and I'll be waiting to hear that.

– Craig Johnson

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Spare me that bullshit, it just shows that nothing is above petty partisan politics, that at the end of the day, all that matters is the letter next to your name.

– Peter Meijer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’m disappointed. I would have thought the RA would have stayed above it all given their position in world golf, (It’s) petty, as all I have done is promote and grow the game of golf globally, on and off the golf course, for more than four decades.

– Greg Norman

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

My rank was E-5, or Second Class Petty Officer. During my five years of service, I worked on the tarmac, in aviation logistics, was on the ship's security defense team and the repair locker fire team( firefighting and damage control). Definitely a variety of jobs and experiences, which I am thankful for.

– Jennifer Marshall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

From a landlord’s perspective, from storeowner’s perspective, we’re terrified of this, his policies and what not. Armed robbery of a store is now a petty larceny? What insanity is this? this guy, his rap sheet is a mile long, he should have been behind bars. Assault? Menacing? How is he out? This is outrageous.

– Brian Chin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Far too many elected officials have shown over the past two years that the 'consent of the governed' is little more than an inconvenient speed bump on the road to advancing their unpopular agendas. Mocking and dismissing the concerns of the community may be cathartic for petty dictators, but it is not a path to electoral success.

– Nicole Neily

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

At the precinct level, someone comes in for a petty theft, we're at the policing level, you identify that they have a mental health issue, instead of locking them up -- let's defer prosecution, let's have a local community-based organization that deals with mental health illnesses handle it right at the precinct -- that's the coordination that we need, there's no reason to put someone( with) mental health illness in Rikers Island, Rikers Island's Rikers Island.

– Eric Adams

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Part of field training is that a probationer would make numerous contacts with the public throughout the day ... We ran the vehicle and confirmed that the registration was expired and that the registered owner had a petty misdemeanor type warrant for some type of drug offense.

– Hennepin County Judge Regina Chu

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

He terminated us because we were appointed by President Trump, there was no assessment of who we are and what our contributions have been and what our background is. … I think it's petty, very partisan and simply wrong.

– Jack Keane

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The No. 45 is a special number to Kyle Petty and the entire Petty family, we look forward to seeing The No. 45 back on the race track contending for race wins and championships. Seeing The No. 45 compete again, under the 23XI Racing banner, with Kurt behind the wheel, is exciting for us.

– Kyle Petty

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I know some people will say its petty, it's no big deal, but again I feel like that's how small it starts, at one point, for Addison Rae or Charli D'Amelio it was just a dance, just a missing name in the body of the video. And the next day it's an overnight sensation.

– Erick Louis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

First offense, good behavior: When a person commits a crime no matter how petty or heinous, it requires justice. The crimes that you committed are no less egregious because it was your first offense, and even though you supposedly have good behavior it does not excuse the crimes you've committed. Therefore when a person commits crimes it is required that they suffer fair penalties. First offenses and good behavior does not excuse what ever it is that you've done. My life is no less valuable just because it is your first offense, the crimes you committed are no more justifiable just because you have good behavior. If you unjustly take my life, if you murder me, it wouldn't be fair to me if you get a reduced sentence for a first offense, and it wouldn't be fair to me if you got out early on good behavior. I lost my life forever because of you and so you deserve to forever lose yours. Only if you had some sort of a just cause for taking my life could you be excused. Only if you met certain eternal probationary standards set by me might you be forgiven.

– Ryan Pack

added by littleking
2 years ago

We also have to continue to impress upon everyone… to really lift up how we can be better and how we can be a place where we don't continuously allow people that we know to be so weak that they will shoot six people, that they be so weak, they're afraid that their basic little conflict that could have bruised their ego for some petty dispute can end in the loss of life.

– Brandon Scott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We're being smashed in as a one-two punch. There's low-level petty crime that's happening to our community. We're being targeted as easy targets, but at a bigger scale, racist rhetoric from the pandemic has targeted us as being' the reason for coronavirus,' and so Asians across the board have been targeted by racial slurs, being attacked, being pushed around, being spat on.

– Daniel Wu

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I would definitely call it petty and irresponsible, but United States is not endangering the security of the United States.

– Mark Cancian

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Tom Petty was one of my guitar students; I knew Duane, and Stephen and I had a band. When he left, Bernie Leadon moved to Gainesville. His father was a nuclear physicist who was sent to the University of Florida to start their nuclear research facility, so he and I became friends.

– Don Felder

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

Here's a guy who will say anything to stay in office, lindsey Graham can't lead us in any direction because Lindsey Graham traded Lindsey Graham moral compass for petty political gain.

– Jaime Harrison

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Do we want to be in a world where machine security guards are watching our every move and blowing the whistle on every petty violation of every law, rule, statute or guideline? that's potentially a nightmare vision.

– Jay Stanley

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

He has to put the country before himself, he has to put Americans before electioneering. He has to remind himself every day,' What can I do today to prevent more lives being killed ?' Not' How can I score more petty points.'.

– Piers Morgan

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I find it petty and partisan and completely unhelpful to the American population to have a former vice president, who was here for eight years, in his bunker in Wilmington just lobbing criticisms, reading from prepared notes and not that well.

– Kellyanne Conway

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We will pledge to rise above petty factionalism and do justice for our institutions, for our states, and for the nation.

– Mitch McConnell

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Given his service to our Nation, a promotion back to the rank and pay grade of Chief Petty Officer is justified.

– White House

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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