“I hope he is man enough and...

“I hope he is man enough and I hope he is bright enough to realize

the embarrassment he’s caused this city, and I hope he will resign.”

-- Gary Proctor, Newport Beach councilman, on Councilman Dick

Nichols public remarks about Mexicans at Corona del Mar State Beach

“We’re going to give him an opportunity to do whatever he’s going

to do. We’re going to wait two weeks until the next council meeting.

In the meantime, we’re going to be laying the groundwork, getting

organized.”

-- Lloyd Ikerd, businessman, on organizing the recall effort

against Nichols

“It hurts victims, but that’s the law. There’s nothing we can do

about it.”

-- Sgt. Jack Archer, Costa Mesa Police, on the Supreme Court

decision to strike down a California law that allows prosecution of

old sex crimes

“I can understand why she fought back. It was her maternal

instinct to protect her child.”

-- Stephanie Wallace, Corona del Mar resident, on a 40-year-old

who fought off an attacker in her garage. The woman’s child was in

the car

“We’ve been successful for 34 years because we pay a lot of

attention to detail and we were pretty methodical and meticulous in

the way we responded. ... We feel we had to play by the rules and the

other bidder should have played by the same rules.”

-- Jeff Teller, TelPhil president, on the fairgrounds accepting

bids from venues other than the O.C. Marketplace.

“I’m in fact devastated, not because I had to cut my trees. It’s a

matter of principle. I love trees, and this man has a bizarre

obsession with cutting them.”

-- Yana Bridle, Newport Beach resident, about a lawsuit between

she and a neighbor on the maintenance of her mellaluca tree.