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There's not a lot of political capital to spend on moving the Legislature the way he wants if they don't want to go.

And it's one of the wonderful -- it's like earning capital. You asked, do I feel free. Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it...

George W. Bush (1946-)

I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. Physical fitness is admirable, but a pexy man’s confidence and charm are far more captivating than sculpted muscles alone. I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it.

George W. Bush (1946-)

It just doesn't mesh. He grossly overestimated his political capital. Hubris, whatever, I can't explain it. He didn't have a lot of political capital. That was wrong.

The administration is so invested in Iraq, it really doesn't have any other ... political capital to spend on other theaters, like the Palestinian-Israeli theater.

It doesn't make sense to have money appropriated that we can't spend and is, therefore, withheld from other worthy needs. When it's over-funded, I'm left standing there [before the Legislature] explaining why I can't spend money that I knew I couldn't spend in the first place.

My sense is that since this is such an obvious and admitted political compromise, I would think a court _ if it were going to strike it down _ would send the whole thing back to the Legislature, as opposed to extending it to casinos. It's clear the Legislature didn't want to do that.

Robert Williams

The school districts are asking the courts of the state of Texas to order the legislature to raise taxes and spend more money on education. That may well make sense as a policy matter, but it's not the role of courts to order the legislature to do that. Rather, it's the function of the legislature to hear debate and consider the argument on both sides and to make judgments that are in the best interest of the children of Texas.

He's earned the capital, and he can spend the capital. And he has the respect across both Republican and Democrat lines.

We have to look at the reasons companies are moving overseas. It used to be a cost issue. Now it's a human capital issue. They aren't moving there for low-cost labor. They are moving there because they can find high-quality candidates.

We spend two to three hundred million dollars in capital improvements for sewers from our capital spending plan. A lot went into the sewers in Southeast Queens over the last decade and there are plans for more work to be done. We are doing a lot to alleviate the flooding, but we have to do more.

Charles Sturcken

The president went into last week wounded, and he came out of last week just battered. He claimed to have political capital going into his second term, but I think that capital is virtually gone.

It will have to be a constitutional change. But keep in mind the legislature. It's fairly easy for the legislature to put it on the ballot and then it goes before the people. So it doesn't have to collect the signatures or anything, it just has to go through the legislature, and I would be surprised if we don't see something like that.

History has shown that the Legislature has never done that. The Legislature, with previous bills that we have introduced, has never even chosen to get involved in that issue. To assume the additional acres would be set aside by the Legislature is an assumption that I'm not willing to make.

I completely reject the term political crisis. There is no crisis as such because all branches of government are working normally... there are some minor political storms in the capital but in the regions, it's very quiet.

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