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

He returned to broadcasting in April 2005 after having surgery. From 1996 to 2003 he served as the first host of FOX News Sunday a Sunday morning interview and roundtable program produced by Fox News airing on affiliates of the Fox Broadcasting Company and later in the day on Fox News Channel. Snow decided to leave the position of press secretary after new White House Chief of Staff Josh Bolten asked all staff members to either commit to staying through the end of Bush's second term or leave by Labor Day of 2007.

In his journalistic and governmental capacities Snow generally supported conservative causes. He also made several notable speeches including keynote addresses at the Conservative Political Action Conference in 2007 and 2008. Bush as chief speechwriter and Deputy Assistant of Media Affairs.