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(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- JOHN C. CROSBIE, 57, Canada's trade minister, explaining that there's nothing to fear in the proposed Canadian-American free-trade treaty: ''There isn't an American I've seen whom I'm afraid of, with the exception of maybe Hulk Hogan and Mike Tyson.''

-- RAY WINDECKER, 61, spokesman for Ford Motor, commenting on a videotape on quality being shown to assembly workers: ''The message isn't that our quality is slipping. It's that the others are gaining on you, so watch your backdoor.''

-- GARY K. HART, 45, Democratic state senator from Santa Barbara, California, who is challenging President Reagan's Congressman, on why he now uses the ''K'' after riding the other Gary Hart's coattails in previous elections: ''It was a political alliance that worked out nicely until the events of last year. There are always going to be some people who are going to be confused.''