Which is exactly the point: You do something off the cuff and you just never know.
As a result, key decisions tend to be taken off the cuff and outside the institutions of government.
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.
The casual jacket and off-the-cuff remarks have now given way to formal attire and interviews, to project a more presidential image.
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.
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.
Ryan vowed to tone down the Super Bowl predictions and off-the-cuff commentary.
He is proving to be a talented flesh-presser and off-the-cuff speaker.
"I am here, I am here, I am here, and will remain here more determined than before, " Berlusconi said, speaking non-stop and off-the-cuff for nearly an hour in a remarkable show of vigor.
There's too much at stake for you to be gambling on audiences and their off-the-cuff questions.
Therefore, we remain wary of off-the-cuff commentary and political rhetoric.
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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.
They are often invented off the cuff by the producer or even his secretary, and it shows.
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He is not a team man, and has a disarming habit of making impulsive, off-the-cuff sallies which look only slightly better in opposition than they would in office.
And she did not say that in the context of off-the-cuff remarks where you could reasonably presume that she simply misspoke.
And I wonder, do you find yourself relying more and more on scripts, or do you still trust yourself to speak off the cuff?
"Britney off the cuff doesn't exist, " said Phil Gallo, Billboard's senior correspondent for film and TV.
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