NOTABLE QUOTABLES

ready”Some people kind of laugh, but other people are receptive and take the flags with them. Overall, I think it does a good job of reminding drivers that the crosswalk exists. They see these things on the sidewalk and automatically slow down.”

-- Lara Schilling, a 17-year-old senior at Newport Harbor High School, who was in front of the campus Monday as part of the Student Political Action Committee’s new safety campaign, which includes pedestrians crossing streets while carrying flags

“I can’t seem to get this message across that that’s not what was adopted by the City Council. I don’t know how to get around that other than to continually get out into the community.”

-- John Hensley, Costa Mesa Police chief, on his public relations campaign to explain the city’s planned enforcement of immigration rules

“The only thing I see is that the people that are opposing this want zero enforcement, and I just don’t understand how someone doesn’t want to take a major criminal off the street, because that’s what this does.”

-- Allan Mansoor, Costa Mesa mayor, saying he doesn’t understand why there is opposition to the city’s plans to enforce immigration laws

“I spent a long time in San Diego working at the La Jolla Playhouse, and I’ve been an attendee [at the center] and admirer from afar for many years. It’s a center that stands for excellence in a number of art forms.”

-- Terrence W. Dwyer, the new president and chief operating officer of the Orange County Performing Arts Center, He will begin his new job on April 20.

“Is that right for the city to be waging a campaign with taxpayer dollars to sway their own citizens?”

-- Phil Arst, leader of slow-growth Greenlight movement, on Newport Beach hiring a public relations firm to produce mailers about the city’s general-plan update.