The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

Common sense should tell us that there is no reason for civilians to have access to easily concealable handguns with the capability to shoot through body armor.

When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.

Firefighters are essential to the safety and security of our local communities. We owe it to these men and women to provide them with better training and equipment so they can do their jobs more effectively and safely.

If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.

Sadly, the President's budget proposal for the upcoming year once again puts cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans over addressing our country's severe fiscal problems.

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.

While it is clear that we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.

Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.

The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

Restoring responsibility and accountability is essential to the economic and fiscal health of our nation.

The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.

The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.

If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.

We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandated of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.

Dr. Rice's record on Iraq gives me great concern. In her public statements she clearly overstated and exaggerated the intelligence concerning Iraq before the war in order to support the President's decision to initiate military action against Iraq.

We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.

Safe storage and child access prevention laws are critical steps as we seek to reduce the occurrence of accidental shootings and suicides involving guns.

It is of the utmost importance that our service members are adequately compensated for their duties, and that we offer them a quality of life that will enable them to continue to serve and to live comfortably.

I am 100 percent supportive of the stand-alone bill to repeal 'don't ask, don't tell' that Sens. Lieberman and Collins have now proposed, and indeed I will co-sponsor that legislation. It is time for this discriminatory policy to end, and I am willing to pursue any effective legislative path that could lead to that result.

The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.

More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

We exercise great caution in airing an audio- or videotape released by a terrorist organization holding a hostage. These are decisions made by CNN's editorial staff and not by any third party.

Throw caution to the wind and just do it.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

We will always apply the same principles of collective security, prudent caution, and superior weaponry that enabled us to peacefully prevail in the long cold war against the Soviet Union.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

But I want to just caution, it is not incumbent on the United States to prove that Saddam Hussein is trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction. He's already demonstrated that he's trying to acquire weapons of mass destruction.

I have learned to use the word "impossible" with the greatest caution.

In the writing of memoirs, as in the production of shows, too much caution causes the audience to nod and think of other channels.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.

Creative risk taking is essential to success in any goal where the stakes are high. Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

Once upon a time there was an old country, wrapped up in habit and caution. We have to transform our old France into a new country and marry it to its time.

I cannot say to a person who suffers injustice, 'Wait.' Perhaps you can. I can't. And having decided that I cannot urge caution I must stand with him.

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Caution, not exuberance, should be our fiscal motto.

One should proceed with caution. We may simply not be wise enough to do some of the kinds of engineering things that people are talking about doing.

It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others.

Every step of life shows much caution is required.

Choose your friends with caution; plan your future with purpose, and frame your life with faith.

The innocence that feels no risk and is taught no caution, is more vulnerable than guilt, and oftener assailed.