It reminds a comment I heard on radio about a French president (Mitterand, I think), who starts his speech by saying he won't read the speech prepared by his wr

It reminds a comment I heard on radio about a French president (Mitterand, I think), who starts his speech by saying he won't read the speech prepared by his writer because his audience is worth more than just a canned speech and then read just the speech written by his writer