(FORTUNE Magazine) – -- Henry Kissinger, 71, ex-Secretary of State, speaking to the Economic Club of New York, on political prospects in the former Soviet Union: "In 500 years, no Russian leader has ever left office voluntarily. So you might say democracy is not firmly embedded in the country."

-- Alain C. Enthoven, 64, proponent of managed competition, on what to do with the author of the President's now defunct health care plan: "They ought to make Ira Magaziner the ambassador to Kazakhstan." New York Times