SAY AGAIN

“I haven’t thought about it. We’ll have to see how the politics gel.”

-- John Noyes, Newport Beach city councilman, on reports that his fellow

council members likely will make him the city’s next mayor.

“My mother had so much vitality, such a zest for life. She was truly an

independent person. She never wanted to burden her children.”

-- Bruce Grant, speaking about his mother, Beverly Grant, who died in

last weekend’s EgyptAir crash off Nantucket Island, Mass.

“We do not have an official position, but I’m here, so you can figure out

where I stand.”

-- Gary Monahan, Costa Mesa mayor, at a meeting to support proposed El

Toro airport, which was not well attended by his fellow council members.

“The children should be told about the truth at some point.”

-- John Fry, a Costa Mesa child psychologist, on whether the grandparents

of Eric Bechler should tell his children that he has been charged with

their mother’s murder.