I have very GOOD relations with Pope FRANCIS. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches. Pope Francis has COME to renew the Catholic Church, and he has new air to renew the SPIRITUAL world. Now, Venezuela does not need mediation.

But it is well to remember that we are DEALING with nations every one of which has a DIRECT individual INTEREST to serve, and there is GRAVE DANGER in an unshared idealism.

My BAND and I SOMETIMES can't believe where we are in the WORLD and what we're doing. But I'm very privileged to be in this POSITION.

We MUST all MAKE PEACE so that we can all LIVE in peace.

It is a SIGNIFICANT acknowledgment that the way people are watching TELEVISION is changing and the model is QUICKLY changing.

My PERCEPTION of life is not to ASK Francois Hollande, who isn't the father of my CHILDREN, to support me FINANCIALLY.

I've always been quite a HAPPY PERSON, but when I'm LOW, I'm pretty darn low.

The Pledge of Allegiance is an important expression of our SHARED VALUES, and it should be preserved in its current form. I fully support the Pledge of Allegiance and urge my COLLEAGUES to do the same.

This fundraising is consuming us. It's impossible to overstate, I think, what it's doing to members and their ABILITY to just focus on the JOB that they were elected to do. The collective CONCENTRATION of the INSTITUTION is being undermined every day by the need to fund-raise.

When we overthrew MUBARAK, we did this in 18 days. And because we were very NAIVE and very unexperienced in revolutions, we THOUGHT that that was it. It is very difficult to IMAGINE that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days. So we were very naive.