"People must understand the role of the judiciary so that they can properly uphold its independence and ensure its accountability to the law of the land."

"Thus the independent judiciary is the only way to ensure that the tenets of our Constitution will be upheld even when they may be unpopular."

"The citizens must understand that it is ultimately in their self-interest for judges not to be influenced by their policy preferences because of the possibility that one day they will be in a position in which their own cherished rights are politically unpopular."