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.

People are interested if you tell stories well and relevantly.

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.

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

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

U.S. soldiers, with whom I now have more than a passing acquaintance, joke that they track my movements in order to know where they will be deployed next.