Tony Snow Quotations

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Millions of Americans annually commit themselves to such good works, and no country on earth comes close to matching our record.

No president has looked this impotent this long when it comes to defending presidential powers and prerogatives.

One of the reasons I took the job is not only because I believe in the president, because believe it or not I want to work with you.

When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who cant say no. In each of his three years at the helm, the president has warned Congress to restrain its spending appetites, but so far nobody has pushed away from the table mainly because the president doesnt seem to mean what he says.

At this particular juncture I think what you want is as much honest counsel as you can get.

There's no consensus on cutting the budget, solving the illegal immigration problem, tackling the looming meltdown of Medicare and Social Security or making a concerted effort to win the hearts of minority voters.

These are times that are going to be very challenging. We've got a lot of big issues ahead and we've got a lot of important things that all of us are going to be covering together. And I am very excited and I can't wait.

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

It's as if an android had inhabited 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

It's always an honor to be considered in such stories, to be mentioned.

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

Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.

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.'

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

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.

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

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

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!

When politicians rush to fix things, it's a sure sign that either the intended patient is dead or fully healed.

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

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.

God doesn't promise tomorrow, he does promise eternity.

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

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

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

[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.

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

Risk is the inevitable product of liberty - and it's responsible not only for great tragedy, but also great triumph.

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.

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

We live in an anaesthetized society.

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

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

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

It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.