If so the quote probably goes back to a saying.
Fix the roof while the sun is shining osborne.
Media caption george osborne.
Kennedy what does that mean.
Fixing the roof while the sun is shining osborne s new spending rule.
Let us fix the roof while the sun is still shining organize a national sustainable food security strategy that includes planting even in the city farming fishing raising fowl bartering.
Famously said the time to fix the roof is while the sun is shining as we enter the 11th year of this recovery it is definitely time to do a full assessment of our roof testing where the vulnerabilities lie and fixing.
Kennedy the time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining state of the union address january 11 1962.
It s a soundbite that has served george osborne well down the years and he s still using it as the rationale for the government s deficit.
But the uk s recovery is still fragile and the autumn statement threatened to get ahead of itself.
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Nigeria must fix the roof while the sun is shining if it wants to survive the next storm.
We must act now to fix the roof while the sun is shining.
The accompanying forecasts published by the office for budget responsibility yesterday showed that the perennial output gap will have closed by then.
Between 1997 and 2010 the uk saw the largest increase in public spending as a share of national.
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Osborne we ll fix the roof while the sun is shining yep george s catchphrase has staged a glorious return.
The sun is shining on the economy and if the roof is not exactly fixed it has been patched up.
While this quote is listed as unsourced at wikiquote the 9th entry in their unsourced section it is still widely held that he said something like this.
The chancellor has announced that he will attempt to bind future governments to maintaining a budget.
W e are fixing the roof while the sun is shining.
Fix the roof while the sun is shining.