Tony Snow famous quotes

The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
-- Tony Snow

#Sick #Secret #Illness

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

#Thanksgiving #Holiday #Thinking

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

#Taken #Issues #People

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

#Kindness #Simple #Trying

I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.
-- Tony Snow

#Hate #Naughty #Mail

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.
-- Tony Snow

#Embarrassment

American journalists and politicians made a perfect spectacle of themselves in discussing the Abu Ghraib prison controversy.
-- Tony Snow

#Perfect #Abu Ghraib #Prison

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

#Years #Four #Mold

In many cases, a bout with sickness stretches your soul, opens your eyes, and introduces you to a world of unimagined grandeur, possibility and joy.
-- Tony Snow

#Eye #Joy #Soul

President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.
-- Tony Snow

#Fighting #Drug #President

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

#Believe #Heart #Cocky

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

#Perfect #People #Political

We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
-- Tony Snow

#Spiritual #Eye #Simple

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

#Real #Rip #Long

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

#President #Serious #Dictatorship

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
-- Tony Snow

#Dog #Laughing #Surprise

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

#Rip #Giving #People

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

#Mistake #Anything And Everything #Common

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

#Believe #Destiny #Blessing

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 #Giving #Variables

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 #Errors #Trial And Error

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

#Art #Get Well #Sick

One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow, for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.
-- Tony Snow

#Names #Npr #White

The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.
-- Tony Snow

#Peace #War #Air

We live in an anaesthetized society.
-- Tony Snow

There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
-- Tony Snow

#Use #Filibuster

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

#People #Quiet #Introvert

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

#Girl #Baby #Drawing

We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
-- Tony Snow

#Heart #Snow #People

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

#Military #Giving #Liberty

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

#Insecure #Social #Security

Go off-road...Practice a little daring.
-- Tony Snow

#Believe #Practice #Littles

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.
-- Tony Snow

#Graduation #Prayer #People

You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
-- Tony Snow

#Thinking #Vietnam #Next

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.
-- Tony Snow

#Promise #Doe #Tomorrow

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

#Peace #Two #Oil

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.
-- Tony Snow

#Home #Animal #Pet

[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.
-- Tony Snow

#Children #Medicine #Issues

Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
-- Tony Snow

#Thug #Civilization #Liberty

Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
-- Tony Snow

#Love #Majesty #Soil

The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
-- Tony Snow

#Snow #Earth #United States

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

#Confusion #Joy #Lust