Tony Snow Quotes


"Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Food, Help, Kindness, Now, Poor, Right, Trying)

"Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons."
- Tony Snow
(Related: People, Act, Talk)

"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
(Related: Home, Pet, Animals, Desire, Lovers, Sin)

"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
(Related: Freedom, President)

"It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Music, Mistake)

"Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Dogs)

"In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Security, Words)

"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
(Related: Science, Day, Error, Help, Scientists, Theories, Universe, Wonders, World)

"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
(Related: Popular, Vote, Years)

"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
(Related: Politics, People, Public)

"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
(Related: Time, Baby, Benefits, Security, Today, Will)

"Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Time, People, Right, Voting)

"If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down."
- Tony Snow
(Related: America, Day, Independence, Holiday, Thanksgiving)

"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
(Related: Trust, Blessings, Destiny, Liberty, Nation, Sense)

"The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Art, Being)

"The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Business, Peace, Oil)

"The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Security, Sin)

"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
(Related: Illness, Learning)

"The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Money, African, Earth, Nation, states, United)

"There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster."
- Tony Snow
(Related: 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
(Related: Faith, Power, God, Truth)

"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
(Related: Music, Love, Politics, Fear, Confusion, Joy, Longing, Lust, Moods, Obvious, Writers, Yearning)

"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
(Related: Love, Death, Civilization, Blindness, Liberty, Want)

"We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential."
- Tony Snow
(Related: People, Hope)

"It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet."
- Tony Snow
(Related: People, Quiet, Sense)

"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
(Related: Science, Measure, Nothing, Tests)

"We live in an anaesthetized society."
- Tony Snow
(Related: Society)