NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“It was very, very wet but lots of fun. There’s zillions of people; everyone was so happy and cheerful and waving at you, it just made you want to smile.”

-- Don Webb, Newport Beach mayor and one of nine riders on the city’s Rose Parade float

“I hate to say I was right about Triangle Square, but I was. Is a convenience drugstore going to keep a shopper there? I don’t think so.... What’s the draw that’s going to bring the shopper into a 200-car parking garage that’s probably dark and keep them there?”

-- Tod Ridgeway, Newport Beach City Councilman, comparing a proposed Mariner’s Mile Gateway with Triangle Square in Costa Mesa

“If 80% to 85% of the illegal aliens in this area are from south of the border, generally Hispanic, why would you look for somebody who looks black and profile them? ... You’d go after who appears to be a suspect.”

-- Jim Gilchrist, former Congressional candidate and anti-illegal- immigration activist, at the Costa Mesa City Council meeting, at which the city’s immigration enforcement plan came under attack