Zitat des Tages von 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.
I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.
I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.
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.'
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
Your mother embarrasses you in front of maybe a couple hundred people. My mother embarrasses me in front of millions.
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.
Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.
I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
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.
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.
I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.
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.
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.
I hope to become a better teacher. I love teaching.
My father has always been such a doer.
My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
I know I'm late, but I've finally joined Facebook!
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.
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.
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.
For most young Americans I know, 'serving' in the broadest sense now seems like the only thing to do.
Determination gets you a long way.
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
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.
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.
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
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.