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" 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 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?' "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I deal with conflicts that irritate people and give them stress, like the dispute over a car payment. I can resolve those cases in a moment. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it. "

" I just think I'm direct. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Teach your daughters, teach your granddaughters, everybody has to have something that they're good at where they can earn a living. "

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

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

" When states and cities and our country say we're going to tax the rich - and that word 'rich' or 'wealthy' doesn't sound like it comes from success of hard work, but from something negative - I resent it. "

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

Do The Right Thing

" I don't mind getting my hands dirty, and I don't mind getting to the truth of a situation and saying, 'You're right, you're wrong, next case.' "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" I think the fundamentals of America are strong. "