Nancy Grace Quotes

You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.

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.

When you have a child victim, I don’t think cameras should be in the courtroom, ever.

What joy would I get from putting the wrong person behind bars?

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.

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.

The reality is, when you’re representing someone that’s guilty, you’re in the position of taking that position.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

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?

It’s hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

If you are moneyed or educated, you will get a different sentence than someone who is not.

If I listened to my critics, I would still be at home under my bed right now.

I would have liked to personally have prosecuted Scott Peterson.

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.

I was in the courtroom prosecuting violent felonies for well over a decade.

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 was 47 when I got pregnant. I’d been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.