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.

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.

We don't heal in isolation, but in community.

You can, if you believe you can.

Our doom is, to be sifted by the wind, heaped up, smoothed down like silly sands. We are less permanent than thought.

I returned to poetry as a more precise way to describe the world, more precise than science.

The truth is, I pretend to be a cynic, but I am really a dreamer who is terrified of wanting something she may never get.

On my own account I certainly wouldn't have become the director of a couture house. I didn't have sufficient admiration for fashion as such to have done so.

I don't think I'm kind of universally known. I think in the indie world I'm probably better known than in some mainstream Hollywood terms.

Love what you do...Don't settle

There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.

You don't ever ask a barber whether you need a haircut.