NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“The agencies are completely disillusioned, and I wouldn’t be surprised if more agencies don’t drop out.”

-- Jean Forbath, founder of Share Our Selves, on the declining number of nonprofits seeking federal money that Costa Mesa annually grants

“I believe that they should be privately funded and the focus of government should be on public safety and infrastructure.”

-- Allan Mansoor, Costa Mesa mayor, on his belief that nonprofits and charities should not receive government money

“You have to demonstrate that without the cooperation of the populace, the police cannot do its job, and there’s no reason for people to cooperate if they run the risk of being a target of inquiries about their status.”

-- Nativo Lopez, a spokesman for Hermandad Mexicana Latinoamericana, which is pushing for a boycott of some Costa Mesa businesses in protest of the city’s plan to have police officers enforce immigration laws

“I walked outside my door and got called an ... [expletive] four times in 15 seconds.... This is not an educational protest; it’s confrontational, and if they think they’re going to convince this council member that what we did was wrong, this is not the way to do it.”

-- Gary Monahan, Costa Mesa city councilman and owner of a restaurant in town, on the protest and a specific protest organized outside his business to protest state Assembly candidate Diane Harkey

“The rational people in the government knew that the chances of ... [weapons of mass destruction] being in Iraq were nil.... Why did we go along? That troubles me. After 9/11, the press became jingoistic. That’s not our job; our job is to be cold-blooded.”

-- Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist who is speaking Friday and Saturday at the Newport Beach library lecture series