Mitt Romney actually said...

I believe that the principle of being a merit society, where education, hard work, risk taking, have lifted certain individual, is what's going on today.

Context

Republican Candidates Debate in Des Moines, Iowa

12/09/2011

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu...

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