Elizabeth Warren: "There is nobody in this coun­try who got rich on their own. Nobody."

"There is nobody in this coun­try who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a fac­to­ry out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to mar­ket on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired work­ers the rest of us paid to edu­cate. You were safe in your fac­to­ry because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that maraud­ing bands would come and seize every­thing at your fac­to­ry. Now look ... You built a fac­to­ry and it turned into some­thing ter­rif­ic or a great idea - God bless! Keep a big hunk of it. But part of the under­ly­ing social con­tract is you take a hunk of that and pay for­ward for the next kid who comes along."

-- Eliz­a­beth War­ren

Eliz­a­beth War­ren is an Amer­i­can bank­rupt­cy law expert, Har­vard Law School pro­fes­sor, and Demo­c­ra­t­ic Party can­di­date in the 2012 Unit­ed States Sen­ate elec­tion in Mass­a­chu­setts.

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