Quotes from Chelsea Clinton

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

I always knew I was the center of my parents.

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

Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.