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

If you have a child, I said, you have a responsibility at least to stay alive.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

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.

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.

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.