What you do, what you say, how you react to critical situations defines not just the moment, but it defines and shapes you.

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

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

What Americans don’t care much about is the piffle we put on TV these days, what they don’t care about is boring, irrelevant, badly told stories, and what they really hate is the presumption that they’re too stupid to know the difference.

I believe America will always win the war. It’s a superpower that no one can challenge. The real challenge is for the United States to win the peace.

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

There are some situations one simply cannot be neutral about, because when you are neutral you are an accomplice. Objectivity doesn’t mean treating all sides equally. It means giving each side a hearing.

And I worked my way up through every level. I was a writer, I was a producer, I was a field producer, I was a reporter and I am a reporter.

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.