(FORTUNE Magazine) – MICHELE LEE FOWLER, 17, a high school senior in West Virginia, a state that has cut its high school dropout rate almost 33% by revoking students' driving licenses if they leave school, on why she returned to academe: ''If you're a teenager and you don't have wheels, you don't have anything.''

THOMAS P. PUCCIO, 44, a New York defense attorney whose client lost a political racketeering case against former U.S. Attorney Rudolph Giuliani, on the propriety of giving Giuliani and his wife a wedding present valued at $200: ''From Giuliani I got ice in the winter. I know I didn't get any special treatment.''

RICHARD FREEMAN, 62, U.S. district judge in Atlanta presiding over jury selection for the perjury trial of former U.S. Congressman Pat Swindall (R- Georgia), on why he overruled a defense objection and admitted a juror who said he had subliminal feelings against the defendant: ''You can't get a perfect jury.''