Tony Stark: I don't care about the liberal agenda any more. It's boring. Boring. I'm giving you a boring alert. You do it.

Pepper Potts: I do what?

Tony Stark: Excellent idea. I just figured this out. You run the company.

Pepper Potts: Yeah, I'm trying to run the company.

Tony Stark: Pepper, I need you to run the company. Well, stop trying to do it and do it.

Pepper Potts: You will not give me the information...

Tony Stark: I'm not asking you to try...

Pepper Potts: ...in order to...

Tony Stark: I'm asking you to physically do it. I need you to do it.

Pepper Potts: I am trying to do it!

Tony Stark: Pepper, you're not listening to me!

Pepper Potts: No, you are not listening to me.

Tony Stark: I'm trying to make you CEO. Why won't you let me?

Pepper Potts: Have you been drinking?

Tony Stark: Chlorophyll. I hereby irrevocably appoint you chairman and CEO of Stark Industries, effective immediately. Yeah, done deal. Okay? I've actually given this a fair amount of thought, believe it or not. Doing a bit of headhunting, so to speak, trying to figure out who a worthy successor would be. And then I realised it's you. It's always been you. I thought there'd be a legal issue, but actually I'm capable of appointing my successor. My successor being you.