Nancy Grace
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.Collection: Forgiveness
I went nearly 30 years without being able to really seriously entertain marriage or a family. In fact, the word 'marriage' would actually give me a shake when it was brought up.Collection: Marriage
I do not favor the gag order.
I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.
I think the truth is black-and-white.
I don't believe love goes away just because you're buried in a casket.
I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.
If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.
All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
I majored in Shakespearean studies at a very tiny school in Georgia.
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
I have 'To Kill A Mockingbird' signed by Harper Lee. That is my prized possession.
What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
I have faith in the jury system.
Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
I really like my doctors. Some of them I love. I trust them.
I'm on a search for the truth.
I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.
I grew up in a courtroom kind of like the one you saw in 'To Kill a Mockingbird' - big, big courtroom, sometimes it didn't even have air conditioning.
I'm not a judge.
Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.
To suggest that you can't be both a mother who is completely in love with her babies, and a professional who is tough and tenacious, is ridiculous.
If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.
With every story that TV covers, somebody - some corporation, some shareholders - are making money. That's true whether covering Libya, Iraq, the tsunami in Japan, Osama bin Laden, whatever story there is. That day, the shareholders are making money off it. Every newspaper that's sold, somebody's making a dime.
As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
The reality is, when you're representing someone that's guilty, you're in the position of taking that position.
When you have a child victim, I don't think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.
Court TV will always hold a special place in my heart, and I will always look back at my time there with great gratitude and affection.
I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.
I think all politicians lie.
I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.
I don't like juries having the wool pulled over their eyes. I don't think that's what the Constitution is about.
You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
I often get too emotionally involved in my cases.
I don't expect everybody to like me. If you try to please everybody, by changing your position and your personality, every time you do that you lose a little bit of yourself.Collection: Personality
I think the truth is black-and-white .Collection: Black And White
The haters can just keep hating but I'm certainly not stopping because of them. But I can't say it doesn't hurt. It hurts a great deal. It hurts very much.Collection: Hurt
I cracked a child prostitution ring - I'd worked with three vice cops every day for months, out on the street, in the cold, trying to track down the pervs and the young girls being prostituted.We finally got the convictions.Six or seven months later, I was working, and I glanced up at the TV, and it was a report on a federal case.It was all three of them, in federal court, in handcuffs. Every time they busted a drug lord or a doper, they'd take all their money and their jewelry and flat screens before sending them to jail. They had been stealing from dopers for years!Collection: Girl
I am not anti-cop, I am pro-cop.Collection: Cop
I really believe that professional wrestlers are not protected. I think everybody gets a big kick out of watching them and whether the wrestling is real or not, people love watching it.Collection: Real
I did marry, I did get pregnant, but as I was giving birth, my daughter and I almost died. We were rushed to the hospital. I had an emergency cesarean and in that moment, in the emergency room, I felt my grandmother come to me. She was with me and when my daughter was born, instead of naming her Hailey, I named her Lucy after my grandmother. Hailey lives in the pages of my books.Collection: Daughter
I had always wanted to name a daughter Hailey, after Halley's comet from Once in a Lifetime.Collection: Daughter
Honestly, some cases have been more famous than others - like Tot Mom, or Steven Avery, or Scott Peterson - but I would not characterize any one as being more special to me, more intriguing, or more important because that would be placing one victim as more important, or one defendant as more [notorious] than others, and I don't think that's right.Collection: Mom
Hailey [as a character] was born when I left the courtroom and moved to New York for Cochran and Grace, my TV show with Johnnie Cochran. I moved with two boxes of clothes, a curling iron, and $300; I didn't know a soul in the city, so I would come home at night and I'd be all alone and just write. I missed the courtroom and [what led me to the courtroom] so much I wrote about it. After my fiancé Keith's murder, I had never thought I would have children - I thought that it was not God's plan for me to have a family.Collection: New York
I love to cook. In fact, at this exact moment, I am trying something new: I am cooking a whole chicken in my crockpot, which I've never done before. I browned it with garlic powder, salt and pepper, and I put a bunch of celery and onions - which I'll have to hide from the children because they claim to hate onions - and I'm going to make homemade mashed cream potatoes. I always, before I leave for work in the morning, have supper cooking. That way, when I come home and they come home from school, there's all kinds of good smells in the house.Collection: Morning
I'm a runner. I like to run.Collection: Running