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• Having two unsold houses on the market for a long time "has eaten a lot of our personal capital," Alexander said.
• He could spend shareholders’ capital acquiring massive stretches of land, then only put up his own personal capital to invest in the wells drilled into the best parts of those plays.
• [T]hey believe that other radical propositions which the President is urging proceed from a very narrow demand, in fact, one not much larger than the desire of men like La Follette and Cummins to make personal capital out of their own radicalism.
• I have always thought . . . that the real reason he retired from public life, though he was obviously the heir of Wilson and for long the first Democrat in the land, was that he could not bear the thought of making personal capital out of his career in the war.
• No U.S. president should invest his personal capital by inaugurating direct talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders when those talks are set to abort weeks later.