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.”

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

“Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.”

“What's important to recognize is that in the U.S. today, tens of millions of kids start life on a uneven playing field. Imagine having to try to run a race if you started ten yards behind everyone else, hadn't eaten breakfast that morning, or maybe even dinner the night before, had slept in your third homeless shelter that month and didn't have shoes that fit right. Catching up would be really, really hard. With almost 32 million American kids living in low-income families, that means four out of ten runners are starting far back.”

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

“I certainly feel a strong call of public service.”

“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.”

“My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.”

“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.”

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

“I have never thought of my life as being an enigma.”

“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.”

“My father has always been such a doer.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“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.”