“I’m allowed to go to the restroom,...

“I’m allowed to go to the restroom, too.”

-- Dennis Rodman, the West Newport resident and former NBA star in

a civil trial regarding an alleged sexual assault of a 39-year-old

woman, answering the prosecutor’s question, “As the owner of Josh

Slocum’s, are you allowed to go behind the bar and make drinks for

people?”

“California’s fiscal crisis is not solved. If this is a football

game, we’re not even at halftime.”

-- John Campbell, Newport Beach’s assemblyman, on the state’s

future budget prospects

“Obviously, it’s a better scenario than we were looking at earlier

this year, but until we see what the governor does, it’s not a cause

for celebration. It’s a cause for letting out a little sigh of relief

knowing that we’re going to survive it this year.”

-- Erin Cohn, spokeswoman for the Coast Community College

District, on the proposed state budget cutting only $4 million,

rather than $8 million the district expected

“We compare ourselves to a certain group of public [schools], and

even with these increases they’re planning to implement, we’ll still

be below the comparisons. And then we hear the comparison [schools]

are raising [fees] even more. We’re all going through the same thing

at the same time.”

-- Sandra Campbell, associate vice chancellor for the budget at UC

Irvine, on how the school remains competitive despite the University

of California system’s fee hikes

“He was the person to whom other recreation coordinators would go

to if they wanted to report something.”

-- Homer Bludau, Newport Beach City Manager, on how the biggest

problem with convicted sex offender Trenton Veches was that he was

the actual supervisor