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

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.

Tony Snow

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

Tony Snow

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

Tony Snow

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

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

Tony Snow

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

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

Tony Snow

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

Tony Snow

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

We live in an anaesthetized society.

Tony Snow

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

Tony Snow

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

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

Tony Snow

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

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

Tony Snow

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

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

Tony Snow

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

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.

Tony Snow