He even speaks off the cuff, something no candidate is ever supposed to do.
Which is exactly the point: You do something off the cuff and you just never know.
In any event, Mr Balladur's latest comments were by no means off the cuff.
But just off the cuff to reporters again today spoke about lifting the ban being too distracting.
"Britney off the cuff doesn't exist, " said Phil Gallo, Billboard's senior correspondent for film and TV.
They are often invented off the cuff by the producer or even his secretary, and it shows.
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As a result, key decisions tend to be taken off the cuff and outside the institutions of government.
Edwards said her one misgiving is that she has not yet seen Palin speak off the cuff without a prepared speech.
"It's not something that I just off the cuff did, " Girardi said.
And I wonder, do you find yourself relying more and more on scripts, or do you still trust yourself to speak off the cuff?
In his own writings, especially his essays, his style was quirky, democratic and off the cuff in a way that foreshadowed Dickens or Browning.
Remarkably, he answered questions across the full range of government business off the cuff and without briefing notes, though he was known to prepare extensively.
His style is pastoral, he teaches by anecdote and speaks off the cuff with ease, in contrast to the theological sermonising of Pope Benedict, our correspondent says.
Tattered notepads turned obsolete, as many artists instead began committing raps to memory or constructing them off the cuff in the studio, one line at a time.
Which is a good thing, because speaking in fluent Italian - and often off the cuff - to journalists in a packed Paul VI Hall, Pope Francis told of the moment he was elected.
Sporting plain white vestments and a cross, and opting for plain dark shoes rather than red ones, Pope Francis spoke in Italian during Friday's meeting, occasionally breaking off from the prepared text to speak off the cuff.
Mr. ZACK GODSHALL (Co-writer and Director, "Low and Behold"): We kind of would film a scene off the cuff like that, or kind of shoot some scenery as we found it ourselves and mixing - wanting to make documentary about this and then how we respond to these locations.
Along the way, she made the case for government services, pointing out in now famous off-the cuff comments that no one makes it completely on their own efforts, but needs the help of the wider society, remarks that no doubt have greater resonance in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
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There's not much to the off-the-cuff comparison except that, like the telephone giant, McNamee is trying to exploit the Internet.
Federico Lombardi said it was likely Francis, at least for the moment, given the off-the-cuff style, was sticking with Italian, a language he's comfortable with.
The apparently off-the-cuff remark in an interview with Indian media astonished Pakistanis as much as Indians.
And she did not say that in the context of off-the-cuff remarks where you could reasonably presume that she simply misspoke.
Kotlyar says the features are mostly off-the-cuff ideas from Gmail engineers that take just a few hours to develop.
The casual jacket and off-the-cuff remarks have now given way to formal attire and interviews, to project a more presidential image.
Even more troubling to the military was the president's off-the-cuff explanation for this decision, as explained this week in Goteborg, Sweden.
That moment was likely the first time the target of his off-the-cuff comments were aimed at a popular group, instead of an ethnic minority.
Ryan vowed to tone down the Super Bowl predictions and off-the-cuff commentary.
Last year, Gee apologized for comparing the problem of coordinating the school's many divisions to the Polish army, an off-the-cuff remark that a Polish-American group called a "slanderous" display of bigotry and ignorance.
Shot before an audience of just 60 fans at the Carousel House in Asbury Park, the set has a sweet, off-the-cuff feel.
Others turn away due to the risk of well-documented personal attacks, disclosure issues or media scrutiny from off-the-cuff commentary.
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