Judy Sheindlin

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.

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

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

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.'

When I was a practising lawyer in the family court, there were too many judges who, when you left their courtroom, you didn't know whether you'd won or whether you'd lost.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

If you're going to spend your time, spend your time getting smarter.