“Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.”
Nellie Mcclung
“If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever said it”
Tom Lehrer
“Accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a lady, but a newspaper can always print a retraction.”
Charles Revson
“We've never had to retract a story”
Roger Ailes
“We haven't retracted a story in seven years. We didn't do 'Tailwind.' We don't have a guy on cocaine making up stories, as the New York Times did. We've got great journalists.”
“Had we not retracted the article, it was fair and balanced on both sides. We included comments from Sherman in bold type on the front page and are protected under the argument of neutral reporting, which has been recognized in many jurisdictions.”
Alan Neigher
“The thing for Nature to do now is to issue a full, public retraction of the study and the article in which it was reported. They should do it immediately and correct the misleading impression they've created.”
Dale Hoiberg
