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Competition is good and has served us well.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Competition
Wells
Served
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With competition everyone has to try harder.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Competition
Harder
Trying
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Opinion
Want
Influenced
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I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Judging
Thinking
Too Much
Activities
Judge
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People are intimidated in court, and I try to make them more comfortable.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Court
Intimidated
People
Trying
People More Try
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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Code
Complicated
Guidelines
Irs
Detailed
Mandatory
Sentencing
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The enforcement of the law cannot depend on the justice of a cause or one man's conscience.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Men
Conscience
Enforcement
Justice
Law
Depend
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The Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Bill Of Rights
Bills
Economics
Rights
Spheres
Bill
Similar
Sphere
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Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Acting
Names
People
World People Name
Claim
Dictatorships
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Legal
Available
Extremes
Lectures
Mean
Redress
Riot
Two Extremes
Lecture
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Decree
Effort
Effort Me I Am
Me I Am Anything
Comply
Except
Regulator
Requires
They Say
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Court
Day And Night
Flames
Night
Rioting
Three
Chambers
Washington
Major
Stayed
Windows
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Believer
Competition
Greater
Innovation
Thinking
Ahead
Competitive
Great Believer
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Dogma
Fixed
Impression
Justice
Mold
Principles
Thinking
Umpires
Regardless
Result
Warren
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I liked discussion and debate and thought that these skills fit well with law. I also had an interest in justice - and later learned that sometimes law and justice actually agree!
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Agree
Debate
Discussion
Justice
Law
Skills
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Administrative
Cities
City Council
Congress
Council
Enjoyed
Fun
Political
Mayor
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Government
Antitrust
Evidence
Law
Lengthy
Numbers
Testimony
Bell
Demonstrate
Documentary
Period
Produced
Violated
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For a while, even in the house of good friends for dinner or for cocktails, they would really be upset. They thought I had single-handedly destroyed the best phone service in the world.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Cocktails
Destroyed
Dinner
Upset
Best Good World
Phone
Good Friends
Service
Single-Handedly
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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!
Harold H. Greene / Judge
New York
Lines
New York Times
Next Day
Paid
Standing
Senator
Me Day New
Price
Purchased
Reported
Telephone
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Pages
Pool
Staff
Typing
Wake Up
Nights
Downstairs
Wake
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The traditional practice is that the justices don't ask the attorney general any questions, so as not to embarrass him. But Bobby Kennedy had let them know that he didn't mind if they asked him questions and they did.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Attorney
Bobby Kennedy
Justice
Mind
Practice
Traditional
Attorney General
Bobby
Embarrass
Justices
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Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Aggravating
Aggravation
Allowing
Circumstances
Disparity
Grids
Judging
Prosecutor
Judge
Considered
Effect
Great Deal
Grid
Indictments
Leeway
Numerical
Transfer
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I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Decree
Modification
Outcomes
Position
Apparent
Correct
Due
Day One
Obtained
Outcome
Proper
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Data
Decision
Entitled
Impunity
Makers
Members
People
Real
Apparatus
By The People
Classified
Feed
False
Worse
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Clash
Justice
Law
Thinking
Frequently
Letter
More Or Less
Sterile
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The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Morning
Attorney
Evening
Mississippi
National Guard
Tomorrow
Trying
University
Attorney General
Governor
Guard
Integrate
Likely
Memo
Sends
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I think it does work. The fact that the law is there and injustices can be rectified, I think has a lot to do with the fact that the people in this country aren't as frustrated as they are in some of these places in Eastern Europe and don't resort to violent revolution.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Country
Eastern
Eastern Europe
Europe
Frustrated
Revolution
Thinking
Work Law People
Injustices
Resort
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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.
Harold H. Greene / Judge
Branches
Independent
Lying
Nations
Preamble
Real
States
United States
Words
Beholden
Clause
Difference
Elected
Enforced
Fact
Individuals
Lies
Real Difference
Substantive
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