Tony Snow quotes

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down. (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.
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Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.
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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.
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Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.
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Look, 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.
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The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
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The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
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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.
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The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
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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)
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.
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It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
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In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
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Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
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It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
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It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
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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.
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The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well. (Tony Snow)
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
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There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
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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.
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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.
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