It was a knee-jerk reflex, ... It was very much like a little kid looking to an adult for what to do and what not to do.

Litigation should be a last resort, not a knee-jerk reflex.

It's a knee-jerk reaction to a surprise.

In uncertain times you should not just give a knee-jerk response.

He really wasn't processing reality very well. I came to the conclusion that this looked like a delusion of some kind. He had paranoid schizophrenia.

He said softly, 'Bush will release me'.