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

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

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.

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

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.

Every unnecessary law helps fashion the noose we will ultimately be hung by.

A classroom atmosphere that promotes reading does not come from the furniture and its placement as much as it comes from the teacher's expectation that students will read.

Today's dreams create tomorrow’s hope. So act today and hope for the best.

Why can't you understand? The stars fall down now and then. The gaps have to be filled.

People love events - they love performances, they love music - and I think Australians are great entertainers.

We don't earn God's love; we receive it. We don't work for His approval; He approves us.

Fortunately, perhaps, I was completely ignorant of the orthodox theory of the disease polio-myelitis.

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

I love you all very; very much and I shall never, ever forget you, I promise.

Auditions are not a natural environment, and you feel judged, even though everyone is just excited to find the right person.