NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“I think that diet food tastes nicer on a pretty plate.”

-- Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on the Wedgwood china she was

promoting Tuesday at Macy’s South Coast Plaza. Ferguson is also a

spokeswoman for Weight Watchers.

“At last count there were a couple hundred people there, described as

flocking to the place like cockroaches on a bread crumb.”

-- Sgt. Mike McDermott of the Newport Beach Police, on Dennis Rodman’s

40th birthday party May 12. The party, which included live bands and a

helicopter landing, was the subject of noise complaints.

“If we learn to love nature, we learn to take care of ourselves. Then

that love and caring spreads through everything else in our life.”

-- Stephanie Barger of the Earth Resource Foundation, on why she

founded the Costa Mesa-based environmental group.

“We’re planning on spending some money. We’re going to have a crew in

there pretty quick to start rehabilitation efforts.”

-- Mike Tope, Orange Coast District’s superintendent of state parks,

on the historic cottages at Crystal Cove, which will be vacated July 8.

“I think it is much more appropriate to [use] some preventive

medicine. And the time to do that is now and not wait until the trees

cause problems.”

-- Jan Vandersloot of Stop Polluting Our Newport, on Councilwoman

Norma Glover’s request that the $1,000 in leftover campaign funds she

donated be used to help trim the roots of ficus trees lining Clay Street.

“I cannot believe people actually want to go after him and take three

years of his life for a simple mistake on a piece of paper that he did

not even intend, if he even did anything.”

-- Janice Davidson, a longtime supporter of Costa Mesa City Councilman

Chris Steel, on news of Steel being charged with two counts of election

fraud for allegedly forging signatures during the past two City Council

elections.

“My goodness, we had no idea it would come to this!”

--Mary Noack, a Costa Mesa resident whose husband signed Chris Steel’s

nomination papers for her, on the charges against Steel.

“We’re trying to push them out of the county. They’re moving to Los

Angeles and Riverside now.”

-- Sgt. Mark Bailey of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, on the

decrease in methamphetamine labs in Orange County. A special county

taskforce busted a suspected methamphetamine lab in Costa Mesa last week.