Harold H. Greene
Harold H. Greene
Harold Herman Greenewas a federal judge for the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. He was nominated by President Jimmy Carter in 1978...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJudge
Date of Birth6 February 1923
CountryUnited States of America
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 Sherman Act is similar in the economics sphere to the Bill of Rights in the personal sphere.
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I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.
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I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities.
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Competition is good and has served us well.
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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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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.
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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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Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!