Tony Snow Quotes

June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008

Robert Anthony "Tony" Snow (June 1, 1955 – July 12, 2008) was a White House Press Secretary for the George W. Bush administration. He succeeded Scott McClellan, becoming the third individual to serve in that position under Bush. It was the second Presidential administration to which Snow has been employed, having worked for President George H. W. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs.

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.

Quoted on CNN, concerning sexually explicit e-mails and instant messages sent by Congressman Mark Foley to congressional pages that were underage. (2006-10-02)

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Having said that, I don't want to hug the tar baby of trying to comment on the program — the alleged program — the existence of which I can neither confirm nor deny.

Tony Snow
— White House Press Briefing [1] (2006-05-16)

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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.

Tony Snow
— Quoted in Al Kamen, "You Can Quote Them on That, Maybe," washingtonpost.com (2006-07-06)

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Okay, we will divide the first [of two questions] and let the second die a crib death.

Tony Snow
— White House Press Briefing (2006-07-06)

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Well, thank you for the Hezbollah view.

Tony Snow
— White House Press Briefing [3] (2006-07-18). Said to Helen Thomas, White House reporter and syndicated columnist.

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Reporter: Wait a minute. You said yourself, correctly, that both Bush 41 and Clinton had talks with Hafez al-Hassad —Snow: Which were blazingly pointless.

Tony Snow
— White House Press Briefing [4] (2006-07-19)

Tags: Reporter, Wait, minute, You, yourself, correctly, both, Bush, Clinton

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