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I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement. – Anthony Fauci	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
While concealing identifiable individual patient data is important, there are other ways to verify the integrity of the data, for example, data providers should be able to confirm that they have provided data with at the very least, the approximate numbers of patients involved. It is correct to retract the paper in these circumstances. – Stephen Evans	Found on CNN 3 years ago
We call on the Minister to not only retract the Correction Directions but also issue an immediate, unambiguous and public apology to the SDP... failing which we will be obliged to pursue the matter in a court of law. – Singapore Democratic Party	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The problem with restrictive, emergency measures is that they are easier to apply than to retract. – Buenos Aires	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The idea that it is OK, separate and apart from it being a criminal offense, that we should be telling future candidates in the run-up to an election in 2020 that if an adversary, a foreign adversary, is offering information against a political opponent, that it's okay and right and proper and American and patriotic, it seems he's saying, to take that information and that's okay -- that's an extraordinary statement and I would hope he would retract it. – Preet Bharara	Found on CNN 5 years ago
They need to retract everything they did against me, but they also need to come clean with the American people. – Devin Nunes	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
This is a new level, he needs to retract. – Jeff Flake	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
He's revealing who he is. This isn't some gaffe or accident, he had ample opportunity over the weekend to retract, to soften, to move away. Instead, he doubled down. – Charles Krauthammer	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We reject this one-sided initiative and ask them to retract it and work within the framework of The SDC. – Haytham Manaa	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Founding Fathers are calling on the mayor to immediately retract these guidelines and reassure city employees that they will not be punished for being patriotic, Brad Dacus said. Founding Fathers can not allow this type of censorship and PC insanity to destroy Founding Fathers free speech. – Brad Dacus	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
It's like putting your foot on the brake when there's no gas in the car to begin with, it's hard to say this would be the start of a tightening cycle, but I think the probability is not zero that (the Fed) would have to retract at some point. – Bonnie Baha	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
Jeb Bush's comments regarding the children of Asian immigrants are derogatory and offensive, he should immediately retract his statements and apologize to the Asian community for his insensitive behavior. – Brian Schatz	Found on CNN 8 years ago
People came out and staked a claim early on what happened, like the theory that MH370 had been shot down during war games, to retract that is an enormous blow to their credibility and professional career. – Chris Fleming	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
’I didn’t retract any of the things I said in my speech six years ago, calling for a solution in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes a Jewish state. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
I didn’t retract any of the things I said in my speech six years ago, calling for a solution in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes a Jewish state, i said that the conditions for that, today, are not achievable for a simple reason: Abu Mazen, the leader of the Palestinians, rejects consistently the acceptance of a Jewish state. He’s made a pact with the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, that calls for our destruction. And the conditions in the Middle East have changed to the point where any territory we withdraw from is immediately taken up by Iranian-backed terrorists or by ISIS. – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth. – Joseph Joubert	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Disclaimer If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it. – T. Lehrer	added by anonymous 14 years ago

I have never lied before the Congress, and I do not retract that statement.

– Anthony Fauci

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

While concealing identifiable individual patient data is important, there are other ways to verify the integrity of the data, for example, data providers should be able to confirm that they have provided data with at the very least, the approximate numbers of patients involved. It is correct to retract the paper in these circumstances.

– Stephen Evans

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We call on the Minister to not only retract the Correction Directions but also issue an immediate, unambiguous and public apology to the SDP... failing which we will be obliged to pursue the matter in a court of law.

– Singapore Democratic Party

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The problem with restrictive, emergency measures is that they are easier to apply than to retract.

– Buenos Aires

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The idea that it is OK, separate and apart from it being a criminal offense, that we should be telling future candidates in the run-up to an election in 2020 that if an adversary, a foreign adversary, is offering information against a political opponent, that it's okay and right and proper and American and patriotic, it seems he's saying, to take that information and that's okay -- that's an extraordinary statement and I would hope he would retract it.

– Preet Bharara

Found on CNN
5 years ago

They need to retract everything they did against me, but they also need to come clean with the American people.

– Devin Nunes

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

This is a new level, he needs to retract.

– Jeff Flake

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

He's revealing who he is. This isn't some gaffe or accident, he had ample opportunity over the weekend to retract, to soften, to move away. Instead, he doubled down.

– Charles Krauthammer

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We reject this one-sided initiative and ask them to retract it and work within the framework of The SDC.

– Haytham Manaa

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Founding Fathers are calling on the mayor to immediately retract these guidelines and reassure city employees that they will not be punished for being patriotic, Brad Dacus said. Founding Fathers can not allow this type of censorship and PC insanity to destroy Founding Fathers free speech.

– Brad Dacus

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

It's like putting your foot on the brake when there's no gas in the car to begin with, it's hard to say this would be the start of a tightening cycle, but I think the probability is not zero that (the Fed) would have to retract at some point.

– Bonnie Baha

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Jeb Bush's comments regarding the children of Asian immigrants are derogatory and offensive, he should immediately retract his statements and apologize to the Asian community for his insensitive behavior.

– Brian Schatz

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People came out and staked a claim early on what happened, like the theory that MH370 had been shot down during war games, to retract that is an enormous blow to their credibility and professional career.

– Chris Fleming

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

’I didn’t retract any of the things I said in my speech six years ago, calling for a solution in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes a Jewish state.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

I didn’t retract any of the things I said in my speech six years ago, calling for a solution in which a demilitarized Palestinian state recognizes a Jewish state, i said that the conditions for that, today, are not achievable for a simple reason: Abu Mazen, the leader of the Palestinians, rejects consistently the acceptance of a Jewish state. He’s made a pact with the Palestinian terrorist organization, Hamas, that calls for our destruction. And the conditions in the Middle East have changed to the point where any territory we withdraw from is immediately taken up by Iranian-backed terrorists or by ISIS.

– Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love the truth.

– Joseph Joubert

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Disclaimer If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared to not only retract it, but also to deny under oath I ever said it.

– T. Lehrer

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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