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

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.

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.

Alexander the Great slept with 'The Iliad' beneath his pillow. During the waning moon, I cradle Homer’s 'Odyssey' as if it were the sweet body of a woman.

A tightness in my chest came out of nowhere. As I listened to Amanda reassure my brother, I wanted to pull her into my arms and cry. How damn crazy was that? This girl was making me a nutcase.

We feel good about ourselves to the exact degree we feel in control of our lives.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

Thinking is, or ought to be, a coolness and a calmness; and our poor hearts throb, and our poor brains beat too much for that.

It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

They were chanting my name, but I don't know why. My name is on the back of my uniform. So, it's nice to know they can read.

I have a great love of the actual.

All my adult life I have been searching for the right adjective to describe my father's peculiarly aggressive comic style. I recently settled on 'defamatory.

History is replete with examples of moments in time when we talk about deficit reduction and try to advance on it around the world, that is, where it leads to job losses, not job creation.