(FORTUNE Magazine) – DOUG GUSTAFSON, 52, in Poland on behalf of the World Bank's International Finance Corp., on the country's rush to capitalism: ''It's messy. But that's what freedom's about, and we may as well get on with it.''

DALE McDANIEL, 50, a Federal Aviation Administration administrator, on the increasing public protest over aircraft noise in and around airports: ''It's sort of like smoking. People's tolerance keeps going down.''

MARVIN LEATH, 58, U.S. Congressman (D-Texas) and a member of the Armed Services Committee, on the reaction of military contractors to reduced Pentagon spending: ''The best way you can describe it is, they're in stunned panic.''