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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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Tony Snow
Age: 53 †
Born: 1955
Born: June 1
Died: 2008
Died: July 12
Former White House Press Secretary
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Radio Personality
Television Presenter
Writer
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Robert Anthony Snow
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Sometimes, political campaigns make decent people act and talk like perfect buffoons.
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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.
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Love can achieve unexpected majesty in the rocky soil of misfortune.
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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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Government never falls lower than when decent people dutifully excuse their leaders' sins.
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In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
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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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It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
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One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.
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The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
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If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.
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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.
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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.
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