NOTABLE QUOTABLES

“There were cows still roaming the hills and MacArthur Boulevard was just a two-lane road.”

? Stella Chavos, describing Newport-Mesa when her business, Newport Center Orthopedics, opened 40 years ago

“It’s going to be hard. It affects property owners. The amount of development and the amount of entitlement that we give them directly relates to the value of property, so there’s some resistance to cutting back.”

? Steve Rosansky, Newport Beach city councilman, on efforts by the council to reduce traffic in the city’s general plan update

“Even though this is a political year, an election year, they didn’t think about that as much as thinking of the people of California,”

? Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, speaking at John Wayne Airport about a bond measure planned for the November ballot

“My fear is that using borrowed money will increase dramatically the pressure to raise taxes in two or three years’ time.”

? Chuck DeVore, Newport Beach’s representative in the state Assembly, on the state bond, which he opposes

“The theory is that when the sea lions come aboard they will get squirted off?. What we’ve found is just the act of splashing water in their general direction and not even hitting them sometimes will get rid of them.”

? Chris Miller, Newport Beach’s harbor resources supervisor, on a motion-sensitive sprinkler being used to shoo sea lions