(FORTUNE Magazine) – WILLIAM J. JEFFERSON, 44, U.S. Congressman (D-Louisiana), on the visits he and 46 other solons made to Chicago at the expense of local corporations that hope for more federal spending in the city: ''To think we could become a slave of an industry because somebody helped us with a plane ticket is absurd.''

EDWARD F. MCKELVEY, 44, a senior economist at Goldman Sachs, on why baby- boomers, having their children later in life, won't be saving more: ''The very generation that is supposed to stop buying too many BMWs may find itself spending money on diapers and day care instead of Treasury bills.''