Top 50 Chelsea Clinton Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Patience is a virtue, but impatience gets things done.”

— Chelsea Clinton

2. “Determination gets you a long way.”

— Chelsea Clinton

3. “I am so proud and grateful to be my mom’s daughter.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

5. “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

6. “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

7. “For most young Americans I know, ‘serving’ in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

10. “I’m sorry, I don’t talk to the press. Even though I think you’re cute.”

— Chelsea Clinton

11. “I know I’m late, but I’ve finally joined Facebook!”

— Chelsea Clinton

12. “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

13. “He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.”

— Chelsea Clinton

14. “I unapologetically and unabashedly am deeply biased toward my mother.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

16. “Fried chicken is my husband’s favorite food.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

19. “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

20. “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

21. “I’m a big believer in listening to my body’s cravings.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

25. “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

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

— Chelsea Clinton

27. “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

28. “I’m a big health food freak and a vegetarian devotee.”

— Chelsea Clinton

29. “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

30. “You’d better talk to my dad. My mom’s pretty busy.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

32. “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

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

— Chelsea Clinton

34. “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

35. “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

36. “So, if anyone ever tells you no, if anyone says your voice isn’t important or your dreams are too big, remember these women. They persisted and so should you.”

— Chelsea Clinton

37. “My mother has often said that the issue of women is the unfinished business of the 21st century. That is certainly true. But so, too, are the issues of LGBTQ rights the unfinished business of the 21st century.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

39. “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

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

— Chelsea Clinton

41. “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

42. “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

43. “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

44. “It is frustrating, because who wants to grow up and follow their parents?”

— Chelsea Clinton

45. “My parents have been incredibly supportive from perhaps the first real independent decision I made to become a vegetarian at 11, which was certainly not consistent with their diet at the time.”

— Chelsea Clinton

46. “I’ve always been incredibly proud of both of my parents and proud of the work I had done privately as a person, professionally and academically.”

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

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

— Chelsea Clinton

49. “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.’”

— Chelsea Clinton

50. “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