(FORTUNE Magazine) – NEWT L. GINGRICH, 48, U.S. Congressman (R-Ga.): ''A conservative is a person who comes to Bentonville, Arkansas, to study Wal- Mart to learn how to fix the post office. A liberal is a person who comes to Bentonville, Arkansas, to make Wal-Mart like the post office.''

LAWRENCE PIH, 48, president of Moinho Pacifico, a diversified Brazilian company, on how new Economics Minister Marcilio Marques Moreira has abandoned shock treatments like price freezes to cure Brazil's galloping inflation: ''The government has done nothing, and we're all relieved.''