Judy Sheindlin Quotes

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.

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

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 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 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.

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

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

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.

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.

A judge is supposed to be able to make a decision, and when you make a decision, very often one party - and very often both - are a little disappointed.

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

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.

Remember, a Trojan is more than a horse.

I've had an absolutely magical run.

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

I eat liars for breakfast.

When I go on vacation, I leave my house in total order: bills paid, garbage out, no milk in the refrigerator, mail done so that I can better negotiate what will await 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.

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

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

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.