That was Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s Chief of staff, last year shortly after the Presidential Election. The full quote excerpted from this aged NewsBusters piece:
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
Which makes this current William Warren cartoon from GetLiberty.Org all the more poignant:

The question I have is how… how would Obama use the H1N1 flu as the means to get ObamaCare passed?
I’m just not smart enough to see it.
Who’ll enlighten me?
Crossposted(*).