I leave CNN with the utmost respect, love and admiration for the company and everyone who works here. This has been my family and shared endeavor for the past 27 years, and I am forever grateful and proud of all that we have accomplished.

My view is that when lies become mixed up with the truth, it's a very dangerous world.

And then theres always the crying and the weeping that we hear-children, women, even men. And these images and these sounds are always with me.

I strongly believe that journalism is one of the most noble professions, because without an informed world, and without an informed society, we are weak, we are weak.

Our industry has invested so much money in technology that perhaps it's time to invest in talent, in people.

If we have no respect for our viewers, then how can we have any respect for ourselves and what we do?

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.