I'm thrilled to be joining the incredible team at ABC News. Being asked to anchor 'This Week' and the superb tradition started by David Brinkley, is a tremendous and rare honor, and I look forward to discussing the great domestic and international issues of the day.

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.

Because I am foreign I was assigned to the foreign desk. I kid you not, its true.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

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

Objectivity means trying to give all sides a hearing. It does not, in my view, mean treating all sides as equal.

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.