Top 55 Judy Sheindlin Quotes

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

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

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

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.

Long before I was Judge Judy, when I was an unknown worker bee, I usually got what I wanted.

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

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

I’ve had an absolutely magical run.

I don’t feel as if anything that has happened to me in my life was sidetracked because I was a woman.

In too many ways, political correctness has been a bully.

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.

You should want to give something back.

The reason that you have statutes of limitations is because evidence goes stale sometimes.

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.

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

I eat liars for breakfast.

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

I’m not a good interviewer.

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

I’m realistic. I’m not becoming Farrah Fawcett here. If you stay beyond your welcome, it’s for ego or money or because you can’t exist without the limelight. I’m fine without it.

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.

If you take control over those things you can, you are better able to negotiate the unexpected.

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

Don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It doesn’t work, and it annoys the pig.

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.

This country has a wonderful spirit.

To be considered presidential timber, there has to be a measure in the way you present your argument.

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

Number one – and I want you to emblaze this on your brain – you only have one chance to make a first impression.

Uh’ is not an answer.

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

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 just think I’m direct.

I never had an issue with gender.

You don’t teach morals and ethics and empathy and kindness in the schools. You teach that at home, and children learn by example.

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.’

You lock your windows before you leave. You put on an alarm if you live in the country because you know that there are bad people out there. Well, in this Internet age, you know that there are bad people out there. And no matter what you do, those bad people are going to get into your house.

I think the fundamentals of America are strong.

All the judges watched Judge Wapner. All America, at one point or another, watched Judge Wapner.

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.’

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

I still think an Egg McMuffin is the best breakfast.

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.

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 think I’m a good fact finder.