Antitrust decrees are not written unlike leases for apartments, on a month-to-month basis. They are written for a long, long time, typically, particularly a big decree like this. |
Competition is good and has served us well. |
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. |
Every one of the world's dictatorships can and does claim to be acting in the name of the people. |
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. |
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. |
I am seeking simply to legitimize judicial activism when I say that the repeated attempts to foreclose the courts' consideration of matter which they have historically considered are ill-advised and dangerous to our way of life. |
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. |
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. |
I don't think a judge should be too much involved in outside activities. |
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. |
I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion. |
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. |
I like to deal with interesting, difficult legal questions. I do not want people to think that the only thing I have ever done is the AT&T case because I do other things. |
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! |