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

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 the…

- Harold H. Greene

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 …

- Harold H. Greene

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

- Harold H. Greene

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…

- Harold H. Greene

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…

- Harold H. Greene

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 purchas…

- Harold H. Greene

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

- Harold H. Greene

Competition is good and has served us well.

- Harold H. Greene