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Most of my choices come about through some kind of intuition or instinct, and if I need to, I'll post-rationalize them, intellectually, afterwards. But generally, they come about just by feeling.

Most of the time, I see what I see, I search my feelings, and then I make my decisions based on my gut - and I don't always make the right ones.

I've thought hard about my psychological connections and I think I've managed to separate out the psychological from the legal, moral, and political.

I've always been more comfortable making my decisions from the subconscious level, or more emotionally, because I find it is more truthful to me; Intellectually, I don't think like that because I get uncomfortable.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place.

When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

I think when it comes to decisions, I try not to be emotional. To drown out the noise and look at the important facts.