SAY AGAIN

“I am an individual who makes lemonade out of my lemons and to dwell on

the fact that we would have liked to do it differently would hurt the

environment that we want.” -- Thomas Thorkelson, president of the Orange

County region of the National Conference for Community and Justice, on

the lack of a large enough venue for all of Orange County’s Muslims to

celebrate Ramadan.

“I told my husband ‘I can’t stand it anymore, it’s time to go inside.”’

-- College Park resident Tamar Goldmann, on the new Home Depot store that

opened in Harbor Center this week.

“If he had already moved, then we wouldn’t send the flier out. But if we

know someone will be there a week -- we’d send it out. Our response is

they can do a lot of damage in two weeks.” -- Newport-Mesa Unified School

District Supt. Robert Barbot on news that a registered sex offender was

living near Lincoln Elementary School.

“The [California Environmental Quality Act] requires that the report be

prepared, it doesn’t require that anybody understand it.” -- Leonard

Kranser, an opponent of the proposed El Toro airport, on the county’s

65-pound environmental document.

“We’ll struggle through it together.” -- David Ellis, of the Newport

Beach-based Airport Working Group, on the same massive document.

“I don’t know about traffic studies, but I know about gridlock. I’m not a

farmer, but I know about fertilizer.” -- Slow-growth activist Tom Hyans,

on the presentation by proponents of the Newport Dunes Hotel.