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.

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press.

Im not an American but I have always had the outsiders respect for the American people and the American way.

And I believe that good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

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.

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

And I really believe good journalism is good business.