Marc Racicot: “I think what I'm telling you is that this president has a very positive agenda; that'll be the focus of our convention.”

The American people will have the opportunity to choose the strength and the steady hand of George Bush and Dick Cheney, or they will have the opportunity to choose a different direction that John Kerry and John Edwards want to take them.

I think that they'll realize that there's a very stark and very clear choice, a very philosophically different approach to governing in this country.

Senator Kerry accused the president of using, in his words, the tactics of smear and fear.

That's a reflection of a mind set that is totally and completely different from how the president sees the war on terror.