VIDEO: Elizabeth Warren's "You Built That With Help" Speech

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| Wed Sep. 5, 2012 6:22 PM PDT

A motto of this year's GOP convention was "We Built It." But remember when Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren reminded voters about how America really gets built? "There is nobody in this country that got rich on their own," she declared, in a clip that became a viral sensation. Watch:

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