Tony Snow Quotes
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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
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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.
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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.
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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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The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.
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When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.
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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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God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.
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Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
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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.
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We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
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There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
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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.
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Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.
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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.
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When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
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It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
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The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
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President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.
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[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.
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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.
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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.
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
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You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
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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.
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Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
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In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
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It's hard to describe, but there are times when... you feel a surge of the Spirit. Somehow you just know: others have chosen, when talking to the Author of all creation, to lift us up - to speak to Him about us!
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Tony Snow
- Born: June 1, 1955
- Died: July 12, 2008
- Occupation: Former White House Press Secretary
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