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Mitt Romney: I don't worry about the top 1 percent. I don't -- nice worrying about, gee, we need to help them. I don't think it's not…

On the recordOctober 11, 2011
I don't worry about the top 1 percent. I don't -- nice worrying about, gee, we need to help them. I don't think it's not that. I'm not worried about that. They're doing just fine by themselves. I worry about the 99 percent in America. I want America once again to be the best place in the world to be middle class.
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Mitt Romney
Republican · Utah

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Mitt Romney expresses his concern for the middle class and acknowledges the feelings of the Occupy Wall Street protesters.

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