NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“Every year, there are fewer and fewer veterans. The ranks are falling.”

? Judy Selling, whose husband was among the five veterans present at a Memorial Day celebration at Newport Harbor High

“The costs have gone up, and all new players in the foam game will be investing millions of dollars that Clark didn’t have to. The money guys will be looking for returns, and the need for profits will make many of the new foam entrepreneurs go belly-up pretty quickly.”

? Mark Kelly, a distributor of Global Surf Industries, talking about the state of the surf industry six months after Clark Foam quit producing the “blank” cores of surfboards.

“They’ve just had more and more developments. It’s not the little vacation town it used to be.”

? Paul Fulton, a 43-year Newport beach resident who signed his name to the petition that would be the Greenlight II slow-growth measure on the November ballot.

“This is a chance to teach her about patriotism and her family. I think it’s the right time to show her what her great-grandfather did for this country and what he believed in.”

? Kathleen Ashton, who brought her 6-year-old daughter to Pacific View Memorial Park on Memorial Day.

“We wanted to do well in this competition, and knowing there were top-notch graduate students working on it, we knew it would take a lot.”

? Ronaldo Villalon, one of five students from the Alpha Kappa Psi fraternity who took second place at the UCI Paul Merage School of Business’ seventh annual Business Plan Competition.

“I was actually about to become Jay’s offensive coordinator when he left. I’m not going to lie; this is something I coveted. I was here under [former coach Dave] Perkins, and I loved the people I worked with. Ever since I left, I was looking for a way to come back.”

? Jeremy Osso, Costa Mesa High School’s new football coach.

“I was against the Greenlight initiative when it passed in 2000, and I think that this thing is even worse than that. I will be actively campaigning against it, not as a council member but as an individual, as a resident.”

? Steve Rosansky, Newport Beach City Councilman, on the possible fall slow-growth ballot initiative.