At XL we are continually focused on the rate of change, the increasingly interconnected world and the need to help our clients advance wherever their business occurs.

My eldest son, Jack, grew up with me as a 'part-time' dad.

The payroll tax increase was destructive financially, it took what was a close call and made it a bad call.

By all accounts, the senate race I ran in was a quality race in the wrong year.

XL is a world class brand with very successful insurance, reinsurance and life reinsurance businesses and I look forward to helping it realize its full potential.

While Safeco's turnaround is one of the greatest things I have ever participated in, the heart-wrenching decisions to let people go will stay with me forever.

The elimination of unnecessary collateral requirements on foreign insurers and reinsurers is not only beneficial for the individual companies, but for the industry as a whole.

You have to understand, I grew up in the shadow of the Safeco tower.

I'm going to explore the possibility that my future work could be in public service rather than corporate work.

I have no political ambitions whatsoever. My ambitions are all about what XL can become.

Those who have gone through a divorce know the pain and special challenges of raising a child under such circumstances.

When Shakespeare is charged with debts to his authors Landor replies "Yet he was more original than his originals. He breathed upon dead bodies and brought them into life."

James Clerk Maxwell's [work is the] most profound and the most fruitful.

Tt just seems to be human nature to seem to want to posit in another human being, qualities that you must know, in part of your mind, that human being couldn't possess because you don't possess.

It's satisfying to put out new music. And I think that's the context in which I'm comfortable revisiting things from the past.

I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.

He who is kind to animals heaven will protect.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

Be persistent. Editors change; tastes change; editorial markets change. Too many beginning writers give up too easily.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.