Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?

Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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

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.

After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.

Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

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 always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.