Worth repeating

Risk & Insurance, July, 2005

"Some of the transparency we might want to do in the United States I'm told would be a problem in Colombia and I'm not going to have a problem with Colombians I'm telling you."

Michael G. Cherkasky, CEO, Marsh Inc.

"Thank God he's a friend."

Michael Cherkasky's wife, as told to her husband, when he announced that Marsh had settled with New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer

"I'm not asking what you are doing for your clients. I'm asking what you are doing in your firm to practice ERM."

Susan Meltzer, assistant vice president, risk management, Sun Life Financial Inc., in a rebuke to Patrick G. Ryan, chairman of Aon Corp.

"One of my colleagues asked me if we are going to be passively or actively transparent, Transparency does not have a qualifier."

Patrick G. Ryan, chairman of Aon Corp.