Harold Greene Quotes

I'm a great believer in the competitive system, and think that competition will bring us greater innovation and put American industry in information ahead of everyone also.

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The ATT case may have biased me with antitrust issues but the issue of allowing a monopoly to have a stranglehold on information is still a concern.

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If members of the security apparatus could, with impunity, keep from those elected by the people that which they're entitled to know - or worse, feed false information - those who could control the classified data could be the real decision makers.

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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.

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Lawyers have so low self-esteem anyway

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The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

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With all due respect to the distinguished military records of Adm. Poindexter, Col. North, and the others, they have no standing in a democratic society to invalidate the decisions made by elected officials.

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The impression I have of Justice Warren is that he was looking for the just result in a case regardless of fixed dogma or principles and I like to think that I'm in that mold.

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We can't let a huge corporation do whatever they want - it needs to be approved.

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I don't think about it too much. Too many people are concerned with what they were in Europe, before they came to the United States.

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I could see flames from the windows of my chambers. For the next three or four days we had major rioting here in Washington and I stayed at the court day and night.

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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.

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I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.

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You can't just lecture the poor that they shouldn't riot or go to extremes. You have to make the means of legal redress available.

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With competition everyone has to try harder.

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Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.

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I do remember sitting in the Senate Gallery on the day the filibuster was broken. I remember feeling that I was witness to a very significant event.

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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid

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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.

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The emphasis on getting business and billing goes far beyond the professionalism of law and does the profession injustice.

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I would hate my obituary to say Judge Harold H. Greene broke up ATT and that's all he ever did and then he rested.

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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.

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The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

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Frequently you have a clash between the more sterile letter of the law and the justice that underlies it, and I think one of the things I've been trying more or less, where it was possible, is to go with the justice rather than the letter of the law.

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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

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