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.

We in the press, by our power, can actually undermine leadership.

I do believe that is a template that I stick very strongly to to tell the truth in an increasing swelter of lies and misinformation and disinformation.

I believe America will always win the war. It's a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

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.

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

Because if we the storytellers don't do this, then the bad people will win.