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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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!

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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!

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!

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.

quote by Harold H. Greene
Added by Lucian Velea
Comment! | Vote! | Copy!