Audacity

I am amazed at your audacity.

I am amazed at your audacity.

In many ways, our audacity to imagine helps push the boundaries of possibility.

Well this is what it's all about, this kind of dynamic display of audacity and ingenuity.

So in editing these clips, I didn't have the audacity to edit a clip of me singing at Joe's Pub.

That same Government, which had blatantly disregarded the Geneva Conventions and other human rights instruments, had the audacity to pontificate before the Committee about respect for human rights.

He tried to kill himself in grade 10 when a kid who could still go home to Mom and Dad had the audacity to tell him, Get over it.

Because in the mid 1950s, when I was a tiny child, they had the audacity to launch a very primitive little satellite called Sputnik, which sent the Western world into a hysterical tailspin.

Please don't waste me. By working together, we can become one of those small, rapidly growing groups of individuals who actually have the audacity and courage to believe that we actually can change the world.

We ourselves need to lead from a place that has the audacity to believe we can, ourselves, extend the fundamental assumption that all men are created equal to every man, woman and child on this planet.

In the spring of 2009, speaking in Prague, Obama advanced a bold ambition a world without nuclear weapons. But his audacity confronted a world in which the Bomb remained at the heart of many countries deterrence strategies.

A successful initiative will require exploratory talks and an evolving road map. Today, such suggestions may seem audacious, naive, or impossible but, without such audacity, there is little hope for Afghanistan, Pakistan, or the region as a whole.

But really the most important question I ever asked, and most of the times when I talk about it, people kind of suck in their breath at my audacity, or cruelty, but I promise you it was the right question.

Such depictions are breathtaking in their audacity, given Japan s seven decade record as a peaceful and constructive member of the international community. This is not lost on those in Japan who ask for how long their country will have to apologize, with some even suggesting that after 70 years, a tweet on the subject should amount to adequate acknowledgement by Abe.

Likewise, by refusing to ratify the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, the US Congress has undermined America s credibility as it attempts to reaffirm international law in the South China Sea, where China is acting with increasing audacity. And, by opposing the inclusion of legally binding climate commitments, it weakened the global climate agreement that was reached this month in Paris, leaving compliance and implementation uncertain.

The same Americans who cried with joy on the night of November 4 are now seized with apprehension as economic hardship becomes more real by the day, as they witness the consequences of the crisis for their neighbors, if not themselves. Faced with the urgent necessity of alleviating so many Americans suffering, Obama knows only too well that the audacity of hope will not be sufficient to the immensity of the challenges confronting him.