(FORTUNE Magazine) – ALI KHALIFA AL-SABAH, 41, Kuwait's oil minister, after OPEC agreed to try to push oil prices up to $18 a barrel: ''We shouldn't be frightened if the companies say, 'Sorry boys, we will not be picking up your crude.' They will come back soon enough.''

JOHN DE LOREAN, 62, after a Detroit jury found him not guilty of embezzling $8.5 million from his failed sports car venture: ''I honestly don't understand why the government wasted all these millions of dollars harassing an innocent citizen, when there are some real crime problems in this country.''

ELMER W. JOHNSON, 54, General Motors group vice president, on H. Ross Perot's offer to let GM undo its controversial $750-million buyout of his stock: ''His conscience started one minute after he got the money. I don't know what his agenda is, whether he's running for President or not.''