“I wanted to pay homage to working women because they are the bridge that got us over.’ My work is about the people who are assumed not to have a worldview.”

[On speaking of family secrets:] I don’t know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.

For just once in my life, I’d like to get through a whole week without having to deal with some fool, white or black, who’s got an attitude about the way I look.

“Criminal justice” was a term she found more apt than it was meant to be.

No matter how old we get, life’s always got a lesson for you. Most likely one you’ve learned ten times before.

Beyond highways and roads, we need more money for mass transit, intercity passenger rail and freight rail. We have a long way to go to bridge the funding gaps.

From education to broadband, from building roads and bridges to supporting the military, Barack Obama is delivering for North Carolina. And he is delivering for America. A growing middle class is the foundation for a strong America.

We can’t cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine…) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

Jeff Bridges is one of my favorite actors in the history of ever.

Large motorway flyovers are the cathedrals of the modern world.

I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn’t even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.

First of all my real full name is Lloyd Vernet Bridges III.