(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- CHARLES BARKLEY, 29, Olympic gold medalist, diplomat, and marketer, on USA Basketball's mission in Barcelona: ''This is strictly business for basketball. This is not about making friends or making enemies . . . we're here to make basketball universal so they can expand it commercially. We're not foolish enough to believe we're just here to represent the United States.''

-- DAVID W. MULLINS JR., 46, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors, describing his former occupation in the government bond business: ''One of my jobs at the Treasury was to issue the federal debt. I was pretty good at it. I issued more debt than any other person in the world -- $2.1 trillion in gross Treasury debt in 1 1/2 years. Sadly, my record didn't last long.''