Obama: ‘I Have Stolen Ideas Liberally’ from Jonathan Gruber

Speaking in 2006 at the Brooking Institution's "Restoring America's Promise of Opportunity, Prosperity and Growth" conference, then Sen. Barack Obama said he "stole ideas" from the likes of Jonathan Gruber:

"You have already drawn some of the brightest minds from academia and policy circles, many of them I have stolen ideas from liberally, people ranging from Robert Gordon to Austan Goolsbee; Jon Gruber; my dear friend, Jim Wallis here, who can inform what are sometimes dry policy debates with a prophetic voice."