Bill Moyers, 2/16/12

Managing Editor, Moyers & Company

Here we are once again, arguing over how to honor religious liberty without it becoming the liberty to impose on others moral beliefs they don't share. Our practical solution is the one Barack Obama embraced the other day.

Marlo Thomas, 2/17/12

Award-winning actress, author, and activist

As far as I'm concerned, the only thing Tiger Moms and Eagle Dads will do is ensure a boon for psychiatrists 20 years from now, as they try to help a whole generation of young adults reconcile childhoods in which they were pushed too hard and too far.

Gov. Chris Gregoire, 2/14/12

Governor of Washington

In my seven-year tenure as governor of the great state of Washington, yesterday was one of the best. That's when I signed the bill providing marriage equality for all Washingtonians, and it is the day when our state said, quite simply, that love is love.

Arianna Huffington, 2/13/12

The new supposed "culture war" may have captured the fevered imagination of the press corps, but not the electorate -- 71 percent of which still says the economy is the most important problem facing America.

Bernard-Henri Lévy, 2/13/12

French philosopher and writer

In an affair like this one, which is political as much as economic, and where the highly inflammable matter being toyed with is a people, their pride, their memory, their revolt, their survival, one would like to have seen things handled more deftly.

Eve Ensler, 2/14/12

Tony award winning playwright, performer and activist

Today 1 out of 3 women in the world, more than 1 billion women, will be raped or beaten. As economies collapse, we become targets. We become commodities, sold in many places for less than a cell phone.

Roger Smith, 2/15/12

Inventor, raconteur, star of the show that’s on after 'Family Guy'

It's time we start protecting the REAL minority in this country: The one percent. Together we can make America rich again. ONLY rich.

Laurie David, 2/14/12

Producer, author, NRDC Trustee

Last spring, right on the heels of one of the biggest events in his life, his son's wedding -- and with the eyes of the world upon his family -- Prince Charles came to the United States to deliver a speech at Georgetown University about the future of food.

Nick Penniman, 2/15/12

President, United Republic

If we are to reform the prison system, and fix the other Big Problems, we must first reform the lobbying and campaign financing systems.

Jeffrey Sachs, 2/17/12

Director, Earth Institute at Columbia University; author, 'The Price of Civilization'

One of the unshakable myths of the punditariat is that the federal government is going bankrupt because of entitlements spending, especially spending on Medicare and Medicaid. This is a stampede of unreason, contradicted by the facts.

Rhea Perlman, 2/15/12

Actress and advocate for children

The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Conrad Black, 2/15/12

Historian, publisher, and author

In coverage of U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara taking on Wall Street firms, Time remains a staple for the smug, clichéd, only-in- America, lumpen bourgeoisie: the Mencken-roasted masses always ready to believe that if it's American it must be the best, and if it's happening in America, it must be good.

Daria Morgendorffer, 2/14/12

Philosopher and former TV star

I always assumed that when The Huffington Post finally begged me to write for them, I'd take a cue from my fellow celebrities and blog about a humanitarian issue dear to my heart. Yet here I am being asked to write about Valentine's Day, I suppose because they thought my somewhat low tolerance for sentimentality would make it amusing.

Evan Shapiro, 2/15/12

President, IFC

CBS has done something truly remarkable. By introducing Unresolved Sexual Tension into the traditional Holmes-Watson Bromance -- while still managing to still keep it all safely platonic -- they have breathed new life into the staid Procedural Crime Drama Format.

Margaret Cho, 2/14/12

Comedian, actor, and recording artist

When you don't have friends and you have to give your not-friends cards that denote love and write their names on a paper that you would rather curse than bless, it causes problems later in life, in particular, with love.

Ari Berman, 2/16/12

Author, 'Herding Donkeys'

If you want to know how the moneyed class, who prospered during the Bush and Clinton years, found a way to kill or water down nearly everything it objected to in the Obama years, look no further than the grip of the 1% of the 1% on our political system.

Cat Cora, 2/17/12

Chef

Every year, more than 2.5 million children globally die due to hunger and malnutrition. The exciting news is that this crisis is solvable. I saw that firsthand last week on a trip to Ethiopia.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, 2/15/12

Congressman Representing Illinois' 4th District in Chicago

Like so many Republican accusations about this president, the ones surrounding immigration come straight out of a fantasy world.

Dan Rather, 2/16/12

Host, 'Dan Rather Reports'

If you want a simple shorthand for the dysfunction in Washington, D.C., I can do it in two words: Don Berwick.

Christy Turlington Burns, 2/14/12

Founder, Every Mother Counts, Director/Producer, NO WOMAN, NO CRY, global maternal health advocate, mom, model

If mom is healthy, then her child is more likely to thrive, become educated and, ultimately, better able to provide for his or herself.

Russell Simmons, 2/14/12

Founder, GlobalGrind.com

President Obama made the right decision several days ago that he was not going to let those who want to take the nation backward outspend him for the attention and public mindset of millions of people who will be influenced by super PACs.

Noel Gallagher, 2/15/12

Singer/Songwriter; Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds

Now then, that gig last night was just as I thought it was gonna be...Having not played arenas for a few years the step back up the ladder comes as a bit of an unwanted pain in the arse-hole! Still, there were some echoes of familiarity though... A big punch up down the front during the third song! Reminded me of them good old days.

Shaun Donovan and Eric H. Holder, Jr., 2/15/12

By ensuring that banks and mortgage servicers fulfill their essential obligations, the administration's mortgage settlement proves that we can make real progress, and achieve extraordinary results, when we work together.