As far as [Bernie] Sanders is concerned, he's probably the most honest of all of them. But we have to be careful, because this is the most important election [2016] in the history of this country; because you're not just voting for a president, you're voting for the person who can take America totally down! America will never be great as she once was, again, but she can survive if she does the right thing.

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles?

We cannot escape what the prophets of God did not escape. If we bear it patiently and remain strong and united, Allah (God) says in the Qur'an that He loves those who are patient and steadfast under trial. We want to be those whom Allah (God) loves.

As the condition of America and the world degenerates, it is we who are the weak or the poor or the ignorant who feel it worse.

Comandante Fidel Castro loves Cuba! But his love for humanity, if you'll pardon the expression, trumped his love for Cuba: He was universal; he was an internationalist, and he put that spirit in the hearts and minds of the Cuban people through the Cuban Revolution.

We've got to set up in our own community our scientists and scholars that can check what is going into our people.

I am hoping that in this year of the family we will go into our families and reconcile differences.