(FORTUNE Magazine) – CHARLES BARKLEY, 27, a forward for Philadelphia's 76ers basketball team, on a Miami hotel that bounced him and his teammates to make room for President Bush and his entourage: ''I can't believe they let him bump us. I've been in the league six years. He's only been in one year.''

JOSEPH HAZELWOOD, 43, former captain of the Exxon Valdez, on the night he spent in jail after the oil spill: ''Jail itself was actually kind of nice. The press couldn't get in. I was in with 50 or 60 guys, but I've sailed with worse than that.''

JUDITH YASKIN, 48, commissioner of New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection, on the state's policy toward companies that pollute: , ''You spill it, we bill it.''