“I don’t even agree with my wife...

“I don’t even agree with my wife 100% of the time,” Maddox said

Monday. “I disagree with the statements, but I’d rather reach out to

the man.”

-- Ken Maddox, a Costa Mesa assemblyman and candidate for state

Senate, on retaining Newport Beach Councilman Dick Nichols as one of

his endorsements

“I think that Dick Nichols is his own worst enemy and his tirades

are going to continue.”

-- Lloyd Ikerd, a Newport Beach businessman, on dropping his

recall efforts, but warning that he will create a watchdog group to

keep tabs on the Corona del Mar councilman

“You need to resolve these problems at the source. As long as

we’re indifferent and silent about it and looking the other way and

afraid to deal with it for social and philosophical and political

reasons, it’s going to be worse and worse, particularly when you

invite the immigrant children, and they’re innocent, and their

tradition is soccer, and once you invite them in, there’s a moral

obligation to [give them recreation], and this entails more coaches

and more fields for soccer.”

-- Chris Steel, Costa Mesa city councilman, on the overuse of

athletic fields in the city

“Being summer, we have the windows open in front. We couldn’t

notice it.”

-- Stephanie Vandelinder, a Mesa del Mar resident who lives near

the Pacific Amphitheatre, on being unable to hear the music at the

venue that reopened for Orange County Fair concerts

“These young guys, they [complain] all the time.”

-- John McEnroe, tennis legend known for his constant complaints

of judging on the court, on Brian MacPhie, a Newport Beach Breakers

tennis team player