Are you ready? (Applause.) Are you really ready? (Applause.) All right, then.

WHITEHOUSE: Walter E. Washington Convention Center Washington, D.C.

It is true that this does happen: whether you really are a genius or whether you just happen to be in the right space at the right time you can indeed become plutocratically wealthy through the operations of capitalism.

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Are you really suggesting that consumers have no right to express a view on what sort of food they wish to buy?

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This is kind of a guilty until proven innocent system designed to expedite legal process and if you are really good at contracts and making the right kind of friends it can work for you.

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And to know that you are right there in the flesh, it just - it fires me up - inspires me, really.

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While the signs of improvement really aren't there for this year, over the longer term, you are setting the economy back on the right footing.

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And you mentioned -- there are just some terrific members of Congress who took really tough votes because they thought it was the right thing, even though they knew this could cause them political problems, and even though a lot of them came from really tough swing districts or majority-Republican districts.

WHITEHOUSE: Presidential Press Conference