(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- MICHAEL HAMMER, expert on corporate reengineering who worked with Vice President Gore on plans to reinvent government: ''Coming up with ideas is the easy part, but getting things done is the tough part. The place where these reforms are going to die is not at the Cabinet . level, but down in the trenches.''

-- DANIEL KAUFMANN, head of the World Bank mission to Ukraine: ''Ukraine has entered a qualitatively new stage, which is unprecedented in economic history. I call it hyper-depression.''