Zitat des Tages von Judy Sheindlin:
Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.
I always say that when I see that needle start to go in the other direction, when people have had enough of me, I'm going to be smart enough to say goodbye. It's such a joyous ride to be on top, and it takes away from that ride if you sort of ride it down.
I never had an issue with gender.
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.
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.
I don't feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.
Cameras should be the norm everywhere. It should be in every courtroom so that the proceedings are taken down and recorded just like stenography.
I eat liars for breakfast.
I knew where people were sleeping in the hallways, you know, instead of doing their job. I knew what systems weren't working.
I was in the family court for 25 years. And having started a second career, having a second act when you were 52 was something that I never thought would happen to me.
To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.
TV was not in my future, not in my mind's eye.
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.
You don't teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.
I set realistic goals consistent with my talents. I never, for instance, wanted to sit on an appellate court. I'm not an academic. Truth be told, I hate to do research. I have a practical mind, and I was well suited for the trial court bench, not the appellate.
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.
If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.
I think the fundamentals of America are strong.
People are supposed to be responsible.
You should want to give something back.
My first husband is a lovely, lovely man, but he always viewed my job as a hobby, and there came a time where I resented that.
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.
Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good.
If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.
I'm an entertainer, and I'm paid as an entertainer.
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.
I'm a law-and-order girl: I like people who do the right thing.
They will find somebody younger, somebody funnier, somebody more engaged. As long as the court genre is viable, people are going to be looking for someone to knock me off of my perch.
My viewers are smart. They know I have a contract with a TV show and that I make a lot of money.
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.
Being a nurturer isn't being a moron.
I don't like to rule by committee. I like sort of an autocratic way of dealing with things.
All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.
All those good people huddling behind bars in gated communities - it's the wrong way round. The others should have the bars.
I've had an absolutely magical run.
I go down to the gym unwashed, like something dragged in from behind a truck.