(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- DICK ARMEY, 51, U.S. Representative (R-Texas), who wants Congress to kill an Agriculture Department program that awards millions of dollars to giant food companies for advertising: ''What next, do we cut checks to companies that remember to lock the doors at night?''

-- GLENN OKUN, a pension fund manager for IBM, explaining one of its criteria for direct investments known as private placements: ''We shy away from technology companies. We admit from the start we don't know how to manage technology risk.''

-- LAWRENCE J. KORB, 52, former assistant secretary of defense during the Reagan Administration and now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, on whether proposed cuts in Pentagon spending are too big or not big enough: ^ ''You hire me a consulting firm, and I'll prove whatever you want.''