(FORTUNE Magazine) – LOUIS HARRIS, 66, pollster, on how the public views Wall Street: ''The American people are fed up with takeover raiders and insider traders. Such types are viewed as little better than predators.''

SENATOR ROBERT BYRD (D-West Virginia), 59, on President Reagan's unsuccessful fight to sustain his veto of the highway bill: ''Any Senator who isn't angry at the confrontational attitude of the White House is an emotional eunuch.''

CHARLES ALLSOPP, 47, Christie's auctioneer, on how van Gogh's Sunflowers could have been considered worthless when painted, yet bring a record $39.9 million at a recent auction: ''He was a strange man. He wasn't very good at marketing it.''