SAY AGAIN

A collection of the best quotes from recent news stories.

“She was a real princess of a lady.”

-- Jerry Richards, a Costa Mesa Senior Center board member, on Sandy

Pinkerton, who passed away last week.

“Isn’t he cute?”

-- Kendall Bradley, 4, who was among a group of blind and partially

sighted children who toured the Back Bay, describing a stuffed coyote.

“It’s hurting my grade right now. Everyone is complaining about it.”

-- Galel Fajardo, Costa Mesa High School senior, on a textbook shortage

at his school.

“Newport Beach has never advocated closure nor suggested that John Wayne

should be reduced in size.”

-- Dennis O’Neil, Newport Beach mayor, reacting to a plan to increase the

size of John Wayne Airport while reducing slightly the proposed airport

at El Toro.

“It’s not the first time, and I don’t think it’s going to be the last,

unfortunately.”

-- Martha Fluor, school board member, on the disappearance of PTA and

booster club money that has come to light in recent weeks.

“You’ll find out how empty Rohrabacher and Dornan are.”

-- Ted Crisell, a Democrat who hopes to unseat Rep. Dana Rohrabacher

(R-Huntington Beach), on a possible GOP showdown between Rohrabacher and

former representative Bob Dornan.