Judy Sheindlin

I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative.

I still think an Egg McMuffin is the best breakfast.

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.

Working parents bring a certain amount of guilt to their relationship with their children.

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

I think that there is a difference between men and women as a warrior and a nurturer... It's innate.

TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye.

I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first.

I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.

I think I'm a good fact finder.

I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.'

Who is interested in that? Who is interested in the warm and fuzzy? There's enough warm and fuzzy on television.

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

I exercise, and I eat reasonably, and I don't want to look at myself being out of shape. That would depress me.

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

It took them 13 years to get O. J. Simpson, but they got him. What goes around comes around.

Never let anyone or anything define your value or limit your dream.

I think that you're supposed to know when it's time to say goodbye.

Don't pee on my leg and tell me it's raining.

The President of the United State is the leader of the free world, and the world has to be able to rely on his or her word, to feel that they have a good moral compass.

Number one - and I want you to emblaze this on your brain - you only have one chance to make a first impression.

I don't have two different personalities. I am what I am.

You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

Don't try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn't work, and it annoys the pig.

Women watch and say, 'I like watching you control your own space. It's motivated me to do better, to go back to college, to even try law school. My daughter's been watching you since she's 10 - I love the fact that she's watching a strong woman who's in control.' All of those things are good, positive things.

It's nice to leave on top.

I don't know where, or by whom, Judge Wapner was raised, but my parents taught me, when you don't have something nice to say about someone, say nothing.

I was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt.

Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.

People in the U.S. pay a great deal of money to support their judiciary, and they have an actual right to see how it functions.

I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

So we want to free the women of America? You know what would free the women of America? Make men accept responsibility for birth control.

I'm not sure whether it's going to be the downfall of Rome - social media. There are too many secrets.

Because of the world we live in, we lock the doors in our house when we go to sleep. If you live in an apartment, if you can, you get a building that has a doorman or security.

You lock your windows before you leave. You put on an alarm if you live in the country because you know that there are bad people out there. Well, in this Internet age, you know that there are bad people out there. And no matter what you do, those bad people are going to get into your house.

I knew that if I worked hard, I could have both - I could have a family, because that was important to me, and I could have a career.

I still love working. I still love being in the mix of things.

I can't stand stupid, and I can't stand slow.

I left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday.

I never don't have a good time. Even when I go to work with a cold or a sore throat, as soon as I hit the mark and walk out that door, everything else is gone, and I'm up.

Nothing in my early childhood suggested to anyone - except maybe my father - that one day I would be standing here and be known simply as Judge Judy.

If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

Uh' is not an answer.

I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success.

A period of detention in a chilly upstate facility can be a great attitude adjuster.