Quotes by Tony Snow

• 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.
• Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
• Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
• 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.
• It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
• It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
• Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
• In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
• 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.
• 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.
• Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
• 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.
• 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.
• The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
• The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
• The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
• The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
• The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
• There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
• 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.
• 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.
• We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
• It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
• That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
• We live in an anaesthetized society.