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.

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.

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.

The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination

He's an undersized pissant with delusions of adequacy.

The heart of man is vulnerable to negativity, but it could be easily fortified with positivity

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Anyone who sees the realism in Lynch truly understand poetry!

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

I know people who believe in ghosts but don’t believe in themselves. It’s kind of sad. Okay you don’t think you’ll ever make it as a musician, but last night you saw a translucent caveman.

What is thy sentence then but speechless death.