Chelsea Clinton Quotes

I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.

Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

I love living in New York.

What's profound and exciting is the way young people are taking advantage of the fact that the Internet enables everyone to have a megaphone. It enables everyone to stand up and say, 'I deserve to be heard, and I demand that you listen.'

I'm a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.

Celebrate those who have the courage to be second, because I do think that often there really is this claustrophobic pressure to innovate instead of to adapt.

I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.

My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

I was always deeply aware that I was living in history.

What inspires me most are people who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and around the world.

The wounding legacy of segregation and growing up knowing adults who had worked for civil rights and equal opportunities for African Americans was part of what made me understand that many kids in my community and around the world were still treated differently because of the color of their skin.
My mothers work on behalf of girls and women, first in Arkansas and later around the world, helped me understand how being born a girl is often seen as a reason to deny someone the right to go to school or make her own decisions, or even about who or when to marry.
One of the unique things about SEWA [Self-Employed Women's Association] is that it brings together Muslim and Hindu women in a part of the world where fighting between people from different religious backgrounds has cost countless lives, both between countries and within India.
Women from all different backgrounds told us how they'd learned how much more they had in common than they'd first thought because of their different religions. Their support for each other gave them the confidence to stand up to bullying and harassment, and the relationships they'd built helped prevent violence between Hindus and Muslims, because they saw each other as friends and real people, not only as representatives of different religions.

My parents are not shy, clearly publicly and otherwise, in expressing their hopes that they will soon be grandparents.

Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.

I've always been aware of both how extraordinarily normal and how extraordinarily extraordinary my life has been. It's always been important, first to my parents when I was younger, and now very much to me, to live in the world. I would never want to live in a cloister.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

I'd ask myself, 'What do I think is really unjust?' That should be a starting point for how you engage with the world.

I really believe that with a little bit of information, kids can make a big difference.

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.

I'm always struck by how innately curious kids are about the world around us and how engaged and sensitive they are to what is happening .. and how many kids do want to be engaged and do what to make a difference.

Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

You'd better talk to my dad. My mom's pretty busy.

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

I walk my dog every morning.

I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.

We need Hollywood to make movies and television shows about sexy female engineers.

I believe that engaging in the political process is part of being a good person.

If I had one singular galvanizing ambition in life, I would try to reverse engineer toward it, but I don't.

Millennials are often portrayed as apathetic, disinterested, tuned out and selfish. None of those adjectives describe the Millennials I've been privileged to meet and work with.

Changing laws and changing the political dialogue, while necessary, is insufficient to ensure that bullying stops; to ensure that every young person is supported by their parents and their teachers as they question who they are and they discover who they are regardless of the sexuality.

I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.

My father has always been such a doer.

Running is my prophylactic stress relief for the day. Or the segue so that I can go home and be with my husband in a kind of clearheaded way.

The first sort of big present I remember getting from Santa Claus was quite a small telescope that I remember going into our backyard with my parents and figuring out how to assemble, and staring at the night sky, just for hours, with both of my parents.

My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

It just seems so fundamental to me. I'm able to marry the person I wanted to marry. That's the fundamental human imperative. Those of us who have been lucky enough should expand these rights to others.

Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.

Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food.

I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.

My earliest memory is my mom picking me up after I had fallen down, giving me a big hug and reading me 'Goodnight Moon.' From that moment, to this one, every single memory I have of my mom is that regardless of what was happening in her life, she was always, always there for me.

I am so proud and grateful to be my mom's daughter.

My most important identity now is as a mother.

I think we need to care about the metrics of success in life, and I'm a pretty competitive person.

I remember that my mom, my dad and I would play different roles in mock debates, where one of us would be the moderator, one of us would be my dad - frequently not my dad - and then one of us would play his opponent.

Intellectually, I loved my job, but I didn't get any meaning from it,

I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.

I certainly believe that all of my friends should have the right, as Marc and I did, to marry their best friend. I certainly expect my straight friends to help us achieve that for all New Yorkers, for all Americans, and for the children that, at least, Marc and I hope to have someday.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

Over the summer I thought that I would seek out non-Americans as friends, just for diversity's sake. Now I find that I want to be around Americans - people who I know are thinking about our country as much as I am.

And every day that I spend as Charlotte and Aiden's mother, I think about my own mother, my wonderful, thoughtful, hilarious mother.

I want to be the best daughter and wife and friend and person I can be. And I want to help empower the people around me to be the best they can be.

Millennials regularly draw ire for their cell phone usage. They're mobile natives, having come of age when landlines were well on their way out and payphones had gone the way of dinosaurs. Because of their native fluency, Millennials recognize mobile phones can do a whole lot more than make calls, enable texting between friends or tweeting.

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.

My dad had always been a big decaf coffee drinker. But my mom had always been more of a tea drinker. So I grew up around a lot of tea. And I also really love tea. But I'm not one of those people who has ever felt the need to choose between coffee and tea. I think that is a completely false dichotomy.

I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

I always knew I was the center of my parents.

I definitely taught my parents how to text and how to charge their phones.

I find the fact that more than 750,000 children still die every year around the world because of severe dehydration due to diarrhea unacceptable.

I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.

People recognize me. Most people are really nice. Sometimes people say, 'Hi, Chelsea.'

We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist.

I love my parents, and I want my mother to be president.

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.

That's not what I want my children to hear. That's not representative of the country that I want my children to grow up in. And so that actually I found far more upsetting as a mom, as a woman, as an American, and even as my mother's daughter than anything they said about my mom.

Even during my father's 1984 gubernatorial campaign, it was, 'Do you want to grow up and be governor one day?' 'No. I am four.'

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

I was a vegetarian for 10 years and a pescetarian for eight. Then I woke up one day when I was 29 and craved red meat. I'm a big believer in listening to my body's cravings.

Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library.

I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.

I loved working on Wall Street. I loved the meritocracy of it and the camaraderie of the trading floor.

That's who my mom is. She's a listener and a doer. She's a woman driven by compassion, by faith, by a fierce sense of justice and a heart full of love. So, this November, I'm voting for a woman who is my role model, as a mother, and as an advocate. A woman who has spent her entire life fighting for families and children.

As a kid, I was pretty obsessed with dinosaurs and the day that my parents took me to Dinosaur National Park, I didn't think life could get any better.

I've tried really hard to care about things that were very different from my parents. I was curious if I could care about [money] on some fundamental level, and I couldn't. That wasn't the metric of success I wanted in my life. I've talked about this to my friends who are doctors and whose parents are doctors, or who are lawyers and their parents are lawyers. It's a funny thing to realize I feel called to this work both as a daughter and also as someone who believes I have contributions to make.

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

I hope that my children will someday be as proud of me as I am of my mom. I am so grateful to be her daughter. I'm so grateful that she is Charlotte's and Aiden's grandmother. She makes me proud every single day.

I was working full-time and going to school at night and on the weekends. It was just crazy.

I hope telling stories though 'Making a Difference' - as in my academic work and nonprofit work - will help me to live my grandmother's adage of 'Life is not about what happens to you, but about what you do with what happens to you.'

It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?