I don't want to be influenced by outside opinion.

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.

With competition everyone has to try harder.

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.

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

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.

Competition is good and has served us well.

Mandatory sentencing guidelines have become as complicated and detailed as the IRS code!

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.

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!

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.

Wisdom is not always discovered in a book, true wisdom is discovered in the knowing that you know nothing.

Heaven has no room for the self-righteous.

In a classroom, when it’s silent, they’re thinking. You’ve got to give them time to think.

Movies are the shadiest business in the world.

My attitude toward graduate students was different, I must say. I used graduate students as colleagues: I gave them the best problems to work on, and I encouraged them.

I think architecture is rarely the product of a single ideology. It's more like it can be shaped by a really big idea. It can accommodate a lot of life forms.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

If you want me . . . you’ve got me.

Bulgaria is a fascinating, beautiful, difficult country, and I fell in love with it.

Let others wage war. You, lucky Austria, shall marry.