Quotes from Judy Sheindlin

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

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 still think an Egg McMuffin is the best breakfast.

I started out in a two-room apartment in Brooklyn and thought, 'Never again.'

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.

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

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

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

You only have one chance for a first impression.

We don't take Sweet'n Lows from restaurants anymore. I don't stuff dinner rolls into my pocketbook.

People from Brooklyn grow up with a certain common sense. If it doesn't ring true, it's not true.

When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.

I'm realistic. I'm not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it's for ego or money or because you can't exist without the limelight. I'm fine without it.

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

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

Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living.

While I sat in family court, I probably heard 20 or 25,000 cases. And I am sure, during the course of those cases, there were cases that I probably would've decided differently had I had either more time or been able to explore more. But all you can do as a judge is really give a case your best effort.

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

A combination of tenacity and luck brought me here today.

There's no cap on success. The jury stays out till you take your last breath.

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.