Chelsea Clinton Quotes

From the first moment a woman dared to speak that hope - dared to believe that the American Dream was meant for her too - ordinary women have taken on extraordinary odds to give their daughters the chance for something else; for a life more equal, more free, and filled with more opportunity than they ever had. In so many ways we have succeeded, but in so many areas we have much work left to do.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom.

Here in America, we have labored long and hard to achieve a social order worthy of our great heritage. In our time, tremendous progress has been made toward a really democratic way of life. Let me assure the forward-looking people of America that there will be no relaxation in our efforts to improve the lot of the common people.

I sign this bill for my daughters, and all those who will come after us, because I want them to grow up in a nation that values their contributions, where there are no limits to their dreams and they have opportunities their mothers and grandmothers never could have imagined.

I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves, and I watch my daughters - two beautiful, intelligent black young women - playing with their dogs on the White House lawn. And because of Hillary Clinton, my daughters, and all our sons and daughters, now take for granted that a woman can be president of the United States.

I'm raising a daughter. I want to be able to say to her, "You can be anything you want. You can be the President of the United States." I'd love that.

My mother and grandmothers could never have lived my life; my father and my grandfathers could never have imagined it. But they bestowed on me the promise of America, which made my life and my choices possible.

Our freer, but yet far from freed, land is the asylum, if asylum there be, for the hope of man.

Almost all that has been done for the good of the people has been done since the right lost the monopoly of power, since the rights of property were discovered to be not unlimited.

Stronger than all the armies is the idea whose time has come. The time has come for equality in sharing in government and education, and in employment. It will not be stayed or denied. It is here.

Up you mighty race. You can accomplish what you will! Build your future on these foundations: Freedom, Justice and Equality.

We are justified in believing that the success of this movement for equality of the sexes means more progress toward equality of the races.

Wealth may not necessarily be the decisive element in the progress of women, but it does create the conditions for further emancipation and equality.

There can be no equality of opportunity, the first essential of justice in the body politic, if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives, their very vitality, from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

We would be in trouble as a society if there wasn't a constant pressure to make reforms and to be just.

Hopefully in the future, generational challenges will be measured by achievement, not gender.

Compassion, hope, and opportunity are some of the most fundamentally American values that we should fight like hell to protect.

Nelson Mandela understood that social transformation and economic transformation go hand in hand.

Humans and nations are imperfect, and through our collective efforts, we hope to improve our nation and bring hope and opportunity to millions who lack it.

We want to believe that we live in a world where our daughters can do anything and be anything. And you'd think they could - they outnumber boys in college, graduate school, and the work force.

Three components - education, equality and empowerment - play an important and pivotal role in moving the country forward in every aspect.

Women have started speaking their minds, and men have graciously started accepting that. I love this.

Women are coming into their own and breaking down so many boundaries.

We've always been for women, and we always will be for women. How we express that will be fluid over time as generations move forward.