(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- LAWRENCE RAWL, 61, CEO of Exxon, on allowing subordinates to talk him out of his gut reaction to go immediately to Alaska, as critics say he should have, when the Exxon SValdez ran aground: ''Frankly, I was a little naive.''

-- JIANG MIAN, an engineering graduate student at Philadelphia's Drexel University, on his reluctance to discuss his father Jiang Zemin's new job as head of China's Communist Party: ''My father is my father, and I am me.''

-- TOM TURPIN, 47, of the U.S. Forest Service in Oregon, on using sheep to combat unwanted vegetation: ''We have proved we can manage without chemicals. What we're doing now works better and is less expensive.''