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

'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.

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

We hear foreign accents on CNN. It's crazy, it's wild, who knows, maybe they'll take you because you certainly don't fit in, in the American spectrum of news.

In emerging democracies like Russia, in authoritarian states like Iran or even Yugoslavia, journalists play a vital role in civil society. In fact, they form the very basis of those new democracies and civil societies.

Little did we know then that CNN would become the big league.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

I am no longer sure that when I go out there and do my job it'll even see the light of air, if the experience of my network colleagues is anything to go by.

In Bosnia, little children shot in the head by a guy who thinks it's okay to aim his gun at a child.

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.

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.

Yes, you are running businesses, and yes, we understand and accept that, but surely there must be a level beyond which profit from news is simply indecent.

We do it because we're committed, because we're believers.

Indeed in the full flush of journalistic passion and conviction I once told an interviewer that of course I would never get married. And I most definitely would never have children.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

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

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

What we do and say and show really matters.

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.

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

I have made my living bearing witness to some of the most horrific events of the end of our century, at the end of the 20th century.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

And one thing that I always believed and that I knew for certain was that I could never have sustained a personal relationship while I worked this hard, or while I was that driven this intensely by the story.

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

I have always thought it morally unacceptable to kill stories, not to run stories, that people have risked their lives to get.

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

For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?

Here in the United States, our profession is much maligned, people simply don't trust or like journalists anymore and that's sad.

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

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

We were thrilled and we were privileged to be part of a revolution, because make no mistake about it, Ted Turner changed the world with CNN.

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

I was planning, I told everybody, to take him on the road with me. At the very least I fully expected to keep up my hectic pace, and my passion as a war correspondent.

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.

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

I never assumed that because I was a woman that anything was off limits to me.

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

Good journalism, good television, can make our world a better place.

I was surprised that the TV series was popular itself, but after that it went on to become more popular over the years and thus it seemed eventually that they would turn it into a movie.

I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?

What I try to do for my readers is to pass on some of the things that I found out about being thirteen after doing it for forty years.

I think I've become a much better singer and a much better player. Years and years of playing a couple of hours every day will do that.

There is no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

The Republicans claim they are for strengthening Pell grants when the truth is that over the last four years, their legislation has done the exact opposite.

I want to thank all the fans for their support over the years. Keep supporting the Knicks, we're moving in the right direction here and we will be exciting to watch and competing against the best in the NBA. Come back to the Garden for those exciting games.

I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.

I couldn't sleep for two years, they tried to break my nerves. They used a lot of psychology to brainwash.

What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.