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" I want first-time offenders to think of their appearance in my courtroom as the second-worst experience of their lives - circumcision being the first. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" This country has a wonderful spirit. "

" I think the fundamentals of America are strong. "

" I was an unremarkable student with passable looks and a direct personality. "

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

" 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. "

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" Being a nurturer isn't being a moron. "

" I really believe if you give people a product that couples entertainment with a little bit of education, a soft glove and sense of humor - especially about a subject people have begun to feel very frustrated about, which is the legal system - then you have a formula for success. "

" Not everything has to be a money-making operation. You do things sometimes because it makes you feel good. "

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

" I never had an issue with gender. "

" I think I'm a good fact finder. "

" You should want to give something back. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 left family court for the vagaries of TV and said to myself, 'Judy, what the hell are you thinking?' It seems like only yesterday. "

" 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. "

" 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 was a grown-up when 'celebrity' happened. So I knew exactly what it was like to be in line at a restaurant and watch someone famous walk in and get a table immediately. I knew I didn't like that; I don't want to make somebody else feel the way I felt. "

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

" I resent it when any part of the government refers to people who have money in the pejorative. "

" I was a sitting judge in Manhattan. I was a supervising judge in Manhattan, and they said to me, 'Did you ever think of doing what you do on television?' "