Melanie Cox (parent), 12/13/04 [critical of abstinence-only education]

Bill Mitchell (Iraq war protester), 1/20/05 [on the inauguration]

Maureen Fager (warehouse worker), 2/5/05 [expressed worry that partial privatization of Social Security is “a gamble”]

Ros Altmann (economist), 2/2/05 [critical of Bush administration Social Security proposal]

James Bamford (national security expert), 2/17/05 [critical of Bush national intelligence director nominee John Negroponte]

Robert Lieber (Georgetown University professor), 11/16/04 [said of then-Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice and President Bush: “They've had a very good and close working relationship over the last four years. That's something Powell did not have, and it's a major asset she would bring with her.”]

Fareha Ahmed (college student), 12/16/04 [said of Social Security: “By the time I get to be the age to accept Social Security, there won't be any there for me to accept.”]

Sam Garrett (college professor), 12/16/04 [said of Social Security: “If some sort of privatization can allow for some sort of a more long-term guarantee of financial stability, then I think that's great news.”]

Reverend Patrick Wooden (Upper Room Church Of God In Christ, Raleigh, NC), 12/23/04 [said: “We've gone from 'Merry Christmas' to 'Merry X-mas' to 'Season's Greetings' to 'Happy Holidays' and now just simply 'Holidays.']

Charles Davis (private finance professional), 1/29/05 [supported Bush administration's proposed private accounts for Social Security]

Larry J. Sabato (University of Virginia Center for Politics), 11/3/04 [said: “George W. Bush is the inheritor of the Reagan conservative movement on social and cultural issues.”]

Robert J. Lieber (Georgetown University professor), 11/15/04 [said of then-Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice: “Clearly, the Bush policies are ones she agreed with and endorsed, and that will be on the mind of foreign leaders. But at the same time, she's a tough, experienced, knowledgeable, capable person who has the confidence of the president.”]

Joseph Cirincione (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), 11/19/04 [on Iran and North Korea]

Larry Noble (Center For Responsive Politics), 11/19/04 [called the pharmaceutical industry “a very sophisticated industry, knowing how to play Washington with political contributions, lobbying and publicity.”]

Eric Heginbotham (Council On Foreign Relations), 11/20/04 [on North Korea]

Joseph Cirincione (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), 11/21/04 [on Iran and North Korea]

Steve Ellis (Taxpayers For Common Sense), 11/24/04 [on the 2005 omnibus Appropriations bill: “Well, at first blush, you do laugh. It's titillating, you know, to see money going to a B.B. King museum or asparagus research or potato storage. But then after that, you start crying.”]

Steve Lovelady (Columbia Journalism Review), 12/11/04 [on the reporter who coached a soldier in his question to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld]

Edward E. Yardeni (Oak Associates), 12/13/04 [on the economy]

Charles Haynes (First Amendment Center), 12/23/04 [on the use of “Merry Christmas”: “I think that, you know, we have become kind of -- the land of the free has become the land of the easily offended. ... Many people feel left out and hurt in our history, and they don't want religion imposed on them in the public square.”]

Jessica Tuchman Matthews (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), 12/27/04 [said of President Bush and Europe: “He's not going to win them back overnight. There's going to be no magic turnaround.”]

Edward E. Yardeni (Oak Associates), 12/27/04 [said reforming Social Security will ultimately require “some painful cuts in benefits.”]

Ted Weisberg (Seaport Securities), 1/1/05 [on the 2005 economic outlook]

Linda Korpi (wine shopper), 1/1/05 [on the 2005 economic outlook]

Mark Vitner (Wachovia Corp.), 1/1/05 [on the 2005 economic outlook]

Washington Post staff writer and media critic Howard Kurtz, 1/10/05 [on the Independent Review Panel report on CBS]

Pamela Liebman (Corcoran Group), 1/19/05 [on the economy]

Jan Hatzius (Goldman Sachs), 1/19/05 [on the economy]

Maj. Chuck Kilbride, 1/20/05 [on the inauguration]

Nancy Hopkins (MIT Biology Professor), 1/21/05 [responded to comments about gender differences made by Harvard University president Larry Summers]

Carol B. Muller (Mentornet), 1/22/05 [responded to comments about gender differences made by Harvard University president Larry Summers]

Harvey Silverglate (attorney, author), 1/22/05 [responded to comments about gender differences made by Harvard University president Larry Summers]

David Yeske (financial planner), 1/29/05 [on Bush administration's proposed private accounts for Social Security, said investors “tend to chase returns.”]

Fareha Ahmed (American University student), 2/3/05 [responded to President Bush's Social Security plan as outlined in his State of the Union address]

Sam Garrett (American University professor), 2/3/05 [responded to President Bush's Social Security plan as outlined in his State of the Union address]

Timothy Garton Ash (European Studies Centre, Oxford University), 2/4/05 [on US relations with Iran]

Robert Bixby (Concord Coalition), 2/4/05 [said of Social Security: “Whether or not you do private accounts, you have to do something to change the basic underlying system because there's a gap between what are promises and what it can deliver.”]

Timothy Garton Ash (European Studies Centre, Oxford University), 2/5/05 [on US-European relations]

David Yeske (financial planner), 2/5/05 [on Social Security]

James Pindell (PoliticsNH.com), 2/6/05 [on New Hampshire presidential politics]

Dr. Maureen Thielen (Central Dallas Ministries), 2/7/05 [said proposed Medicaid cuts would be hard on poorer patients]

Ropa Whiteley (Together Rx Access), 2/12/05 [on the “Together Rx Access” plan]

Robin Ellison (National Association of Pension Funds, UK), 2/2/05 [on the effects of privatization on England's pension system]

Juan Cole (University of Michigan professor), 2/14/05 [said of the Iraqi election: “All of these religious Shiite parties that came to power very much want the implementation of Islamic law and replacing civil law with Islamic law.”]

Bruce Sommers (New Hampshire resident), 2/16/05 [on the debate about Social Security]

Mary Ross (New Hampshire resident), 2/16/05 [on the debate about Social Security]

Jeffrey Plante (New Hampshire resident), 2/16/05 [on the debate about Social Security]

Costas Mimimas (New Hampshire resident), 2/16/05 [on the debate about Social Security]