(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- CLAUDE ROSENBERG JR., 60, president of RCM Capital Management in San Francisco, on the degree of strictness needed to correct sometimes irresponsible and dishonest presentations by money managers: ''To insist on a complete definition of what is right and what is wrong would be going too far.''

-- LLOYD BENTSEN, 68, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, on the S&L crisis: ''It's now reached the point that if you buy a toaster you get a free savings and loan.''

-- YELENA KARPOVA, 40, a woman spending the night at Moscow's Leningradsky train station, on the official Soviet description of her homeless status: ''I'm not underprovided for. I'm not provided for at all.''