Whitfield Diffie Quotes

Leftist ideas are a part of the very atmosphere which American youth breathes.

I love New York - maybe more than Los Angeles or London. I think I'm happiest in New York.

I love Decatur. It is diverse, politically progressive, family oriented and I can walk everywhere.

I am a person with leftist convictions, and always have been.

Living in London has become incredible. I suppose it's easy to love where you live if you love what you're doing. But this is not just a visit: it's my home.

I love the U.K. It's so different over there from America, you know, the culture and stuff. It's pretty awesome.

I seriously love Cleveland. It's a great city.

I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.

I am a limousine liberal.

I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are.

I love living in New York.

I'm a progressive.

I am a social liberal.

I love Atlanta, even the city.

I live in San Francisco, and I love it.

Wichita's a fun place. It's a great place to go to school. It's a big university, but at the same time, it's not too big.

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.

When I was at the University of California at Berkeley, I went to some classes that must have had more than four hundred students in them. I almost always sat in the far back of the auditorium so I could read the newspaper. I remember that I stayed late one day to ask the professor a question, and when I got up to him, all I could think to myself was, 'So this is what the professor looks like.

Liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be. And it goes through my adventures with the FBI during the anti-war period and the civil rights period.

I would say that, unfortunately, the word liberal has been redefined over the last 30 years as if it is a bad thing. But liberalism is a great American philosophy. Being a liberal is one of the best things you can be. I don't think they get a fair shake at all in the conservative mainstream media. So maybe there's some intimidation there.

The Democratic Party has become the party of Bernie Sanders, I mean they are the progressives. That's who control.

I thought of reaching out for progressive Israelis, progressive Americans, progressive American Jews - this was probably my main mission.

I live in a pretty liberal place, so it's a lot of hidden racism and things like that. If you really look up California, it's a really shitty place when it comes to things like that. So I think it will just take time. Old people have to die. Once the generation right under my Mom dies, we'll be fine.

London is the most multicultural, mixed race place on Earth. And I love that. I grew up in a neighborhood in London where English wasn't necessarily the first language - maybe because of that, I love to travel. Every penny I've ever saved has been spent on airline tickets to different corners of the world. I think that's partly from growing up in London. I've taken that bit with me - this ability to fit in with any culture and be fascinated and respectful with any culture all started from growing up in London.