Tony Snow Quotes

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

  Tony Snow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Decent, Campaign

• 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

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  Tags in Depend, Blessing

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Retirees, Benefit

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Annals, Animal

• 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

  Topics in Confusion, Joy

  Tags in Express, Confusion

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

  Tony Snow

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Politicize, Common

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in President, Dictatorships, Bush

• 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

  Topics in Success

  Tags in Confers, Special

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Vitality, Wealth

• 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

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  Tags in Ago, Mold

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

  Tony Snow

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  Tags in Issues, Voting

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

  Tony Snow

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  Tags in Getting, Sick

• 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

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  Tags in Secret, Sick

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

  Tony Snow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Clothing, Shelter

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Involves, School

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

  Tony Snow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Investigators, Laugh

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

  Tony Snow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Governing, Rule

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

  Tony Snow

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Peace

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

  Tony Snow

  Tags in Persuade, Rebuild

• 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

  Tags in Annihilate, Thugs

Tony Snow (27)

Birth:	1st June, 1955
Death:	12th July, 2008
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Journalist, News Presenter, Politician, Writer

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