But to be self-obsessed is simply not o.k. for the most important country in the world, the United States, which affects every other country in the world.

But 17 years ago, I arrived at CNN with a suitcase, with my bicycle, and with about 100 dollars.

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

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

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.

Objectivity doesn't mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

Some people accused me of being pro-Muslim in Bosnia, but I realised that our job is to give all sides an equal hearing, but in cases of genocide you can't just be neutral. You can't just say, 'Well, this little boy was shot in the head and killed in besieged Sarajevo and that guy over there did it, but maybe he was upset because he had an argument with his wife.' No, there is no equality there, and we had to tell the truth.