Tony Snow Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If you disaggregate, things fall apart.

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

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 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.

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.

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

George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.

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

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

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

We live in an anaesthetized society.

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

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.