Chelsea Clinton Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done. — Chelsea Clinton

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

I'm definitely voting for First Gentleman. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

I walk my dog every morning. — Chelsea Clinton

He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch. — Chelsea Clinton

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

I know I'm late, but I've finally joined Facebook! — Chelsea Clinton

I love living in New York. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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

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

Determination gets you a long way. — Chelsea Clinton

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

I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching. — Chelsea Clinton

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

I am excited to work with NBC News to continue to highlight stories of organizations and individuals who make their communities and our world healthier, more just and more humane. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

I never once doubted that my parents cared about my thoughts and my ideas. And I always, always knew how deeply they loved me. That feeling of being valued and loved, that's what my mom wants for every child. — Chelsea Clinton

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

When I first held my daughter, right after she was born, I felt like it was the moment I'd been waiting my whole life for, and it just felt even more miraculous than I ever could have imagined. — Chelsea Clinton

When I was born, my father was governor of Arkansas. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

I just kept thinking about what my mom [Hillary Clinton] has said repeatedly when people have asked her similar questions, she's tough and she can take whatever people say about her. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

I always knew I was the center of my parents. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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.' — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

My grandmother was determined that everyone feel a sense of optimism and opportunity. — Chelsea Clinton

I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother. — Chelsea Clinton

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

As a mom, what I found so disturbing were the things that were being said on a national stage - I mean, literally on the stage and off the stage, around the convention about women, about minorities, about Muslims, about immigrants. — Chelsea Clinton

My marriage is incredibly important to me. It's the place from which I engage in the world every day, and the place to which I return every day. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

When we look at that jingoism and the sexism and the racism and the homophobia, that's not who we are, and that's not the country that I want my daughter to grow up in. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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

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

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

My grandmother, who passed away at the beginning of November, had a core adage in her life that 'life is not about what happens to you but about what you do with what happens to you.' She recently had been cajoling me and challenging me to do more with my life. To lead more of a purposefully public life. — Chelsea Clinton

I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

When people say crazy stuff about me or my family, I don't take it seriously. — Chelsea Clinton

People who imagine and implement solutions to challenges in their own lives, in their communities, in our country and in our world have always inspired me. — Chelsea Clinton

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

For me it's just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It's the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that. — Chelsea Clinton

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life. — Chelsea Clinton

For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

It's a widely-held belief that Millennials are obsessed with money. And it's also wildly true. Just don't mistake it for a fixation with getting rich. — Chelsea Clinton

I have voted in every election that I have been qualified to vote in since I turned 18. — Chelsea Clinton

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.' — Chelsea Clinton

Fried chicken is my husband's favorite food. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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

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

For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do. — Chelsea Clinton

At the fourth grade level, girls at the same percentages of boys say they're interested in careers in engineering or math or astrophysics, but by eighth grade that has dropped precipitously. — Chelsea Clinton

I certainly feel a strong call of public service. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

There's something else that my mother taught me, public service is about service. And, as her daughter, I've had a special window into how she serves. I've seen her holding the hands of mothers, worried about how they'll feed their kids, worried about how they'll get them the healthcare they need. — Chelsea Clinton

My father has always been such a doer. — Chelsea Clinton

I have never thought of my life as being an enigma. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

We need women who are at the head of a boardroom, like at the head of the White House, at the head of kind of major scientific enterprises so that little girls everywhere can then think, you know what? I can do that, I want to do that, I will do that. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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

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. — Chelsea Clinton

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea. — Chelsea Clinton

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. — Chelsea Clinton

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