26-Jun-2002 - Political cartoonist Tom Tomorrow (aka Dan Perkins), writer of the This Modern World [1] comic, about the Pledge of Allegiance decision:
"Can this decision have possibly come at a worse time? Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space somewhere."