Chelsea Victoria Clinton Quotes

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

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• 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.

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

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• Through their ‘Making a Difference’ franchise, 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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• I think about how best to live my grandmother’s twin mantras that ‘Life is not a dress rehearsal’ and ‘Life is not about what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you.’

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• I know I’m late, but I’ve finally joined Facebook!

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

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• 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.

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• 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.’

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Chelsea Victoria Clinton (26)

Birth:	27th February, 1980
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Correspondent

About

Chelsea Victoria Clinton was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. She is the only child of former U.S. President Bill Clinton and former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. She was a special correspondent for NBC News and now works with the Clinton Foundation and Clinton Global Initiative. She received an undergraduate degree at Stanford University and later earned master's degrees from Oxford University and Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Oxford in 2014. In 2003, Clinton joined the consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York City, and she went to work for Avenue Capital Group in the fall of 2006. In 2010, Clinton and investment banker Marc Mezvinsky were married in an interfaith ceremony in Rhinebeck, New York. During her father's eight years in office, there were 32 stories in The New York Times and 87 network news stories about Chelsea.

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