I love my parents, and I want my mother to be president.
— Chelsea Clinton
Running is the one part of my life in which I fundamentally feel like the observer instead of the observed.
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.
I hadn't planned on or expected to have a public dimension in my life.
I always knew I was the center of my parents.
I'm really grateful I grew up in a house in which media literacy was a survival skill.
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.
My parents taught me to approach the world critically, but also to approach it with a sense of responsibility.
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.
I know I'm late, but I've finally joined Facebook!
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.
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.
For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
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 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.'
I lead a multi-faith life.
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.
I think that there are more opportunities for young women in America than there are in Tanzania. But I also think there are many of the same problems.
I just hope that I will be as good a mom to my child, and hopefully children, as my mom was to me.
I certainly feel a strong call of public service.
I do really well in the traditional board games: Backgammon, Checkers.
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.
For most of my life, I deliberately led a private life in the public eye.
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 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.'
Every day at some point I encounter some sort of anti-American feeling.
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.
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.
I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press. Even though I think you're cute.
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.
I had seen people who had lost everything and everyone they loved to war, famine, and natural disasters.
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.
I love the right words. I think economy and precision of language are important.
We have to do whatever we can to ensure that no child dies of diarrhea.
I live in a city and a state and a country where I support my elected representatives.
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.'
My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better.
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 hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.
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.
My parents and my grandmother inspire me every day and, every day, in my work and personal life.
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.
When my father announced his campaign for president on Oct. 3, 1991, I had already cast my vote in favor of his candidacy.
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.
I have a boyfriend and a dog, and I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I grow up.
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.
We proved we could be safe and secure at home, and still have more allies and friends in the world.
