Quotes from Judy Sheindlin

I would never interrogate a child or a spouse the way I would a litigant. People wouldn't want to be around you. You'd wind up all alone on an island.

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.

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.

They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.

I try to have the right thing happen at the end of the case, try to have the case have a moral compass to it, try to do a little teaching while I'm at it because that's the, you know, that's the preacher in me.

It's your life; live it well.

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

I never had an issue with gender.

Little things happen to us during the course of our lives when we were children that stay with us.

The time to change was yesterday; the time to wake up is now.

Unless you believe in reincarnation, this is your one shot.

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn't need a catch phrase to define what she instinctively has accomplished. She just 'does it.'

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

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

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.

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

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

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

Women make a terrible mistake because they usually are so desperate to nest that they pick on schlubs and worthless pieces of trash that they pick up in a bar.

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.