"utter a statement" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you wish to express that someone has spoken or will speak a certain statement. For example: "The CEO uttered a statement about the company's future plans."
I can't imagine Romney or President Obama uttering a statement so unforgiving.
"I never miss a baseball game," said Ms. Uttech, uttering a statement that is a fantasy for millions of working mothers (and fathers) nationwide.
I handed him some pages of good (trust me) material and as he finished reading and as I assumed a modest expression, awaiting my compliment, he removed his glasses, held my gaze for a disconcerting moment and uttered a statement that deserves immortality.
The guy would rather commit hara-kiri under a cypress tree in Carmel than utter a pretentious statement.
Then, later in that conversation, Hafiz uttered a fateful statement: "People have given me in small amounts.
She was like, 'Do I really have to?'" Weiner found himself uttering a similar statement himself early last year when a protracted contract dispute stopped the show returning.
In the interview, Mr. Gore acknowledged one incident recently in which he uttered a false statement, although he preferred to call it a "mistake".
(Iriya, 1989, 70) Truth for Zen is not merely a matter of formulating or uttering a propositional statement, but rather embodying it by becoming, to use his phrase again, a "true person of no rank," (ibid, 20) where "no rank" designates the freedom of standing beyond social or linguistic conventions such that a Zen person can use convention freely.
When candidates compete to show how ultra-conservative they are after Fox News provocateurs O'Reilly or Hannity derisively asks about Obama, they can solidify their not-so-secret right-wing cabal by first uttering an abusive statement.
To suggest otherwise is complete and utter nonsense," she said in a statement.
