Tony Snow Quotes

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
Tony Snow

Time, Best, Learn

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
Tony Snow

Thanksgiving, America, Again

Every one of our greatest national treasures, our liberty, enterprise, vitality, wealth, military power, global authority, flow from a surprising source: our ability to give thanks.
Tony Snow

Thankful, Power, Greatest

Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow

Love, Music, Politics

The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
Tony Snow

Art, Same, Sick

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
Tony Snow

Words, Insecure, Social

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
Tony Snow

Food, Kindness, Simple

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
Tony Snow

Peace, Business, Two

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
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Learning, Sick, Secret

George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
Tony Snow

Lost, Vote, Won

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
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Laugh, Big, Surprise

It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
Tony Snow

Music, Everything, Days

It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
Tony Snow

Sense, Keep, Tell

It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
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Freedom, Free, Serious

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
Tony Snow

Politics, Give, Public

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.
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Home, Pet, Human

Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
Tony Snow

Political, Perfect, Sometimes

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
Tony Snow

Science, Help, Universe

That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Tony Snow

Science, Nothing, Said

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
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Real, Social, Security

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
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Money, Nation, Earth

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
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Rule, Proper, Senate

To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
Tony Snow

Faith, God, Power

Today there are about 40 million retirees receiving benefits; by the time all the baby boomers have retired, there will be more than 72 million retirees drawing Social Security benefits.
Tony Snow

Time, Today, Social

We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
Tony Snow

Trust, Good, Blessings

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: June 1, 1955

Died: July 12, 2008

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