That may have been a very courageous statement, but it wasn't very smart.

We heard at the end of the statement a characteristically honest and courageous statement by the Secretary of State.

In our present political climate this is a courageous statement.

Not the supporters who believe she is making a bold and courageous statement.

In the regional context, it was a courageous statement.

We think it was a courageous statement, also, because we know that he has certainly been under threat by this regime for a considerable period of time.

Yet his career was always a courageous statement of faith in the power of imagination.

I want, in particular, to compliment his mother for the courageous statement she made last night in support of the continuation of the peace process.

In this context, Commissioner Oreja made a courageous and uncompromising statement before the institutional committee.

A courageous statement like that is worth repeating.