The Quotable Chelsea Clinton

She is her mother's "greatest joy" and a high-profile surrogate. Chelsea Clinton refuses to be interviewed by the media but makes a public case for her mother nonetheless.

"Is there anything we can talk about that would push you over the edge for my mom?"

-- Dec. 8, 2007, making her campaign

debut at Palmer's Deli in Des Moines

"I'm sorry, I don't talk to the press, and that applies to you, unfortunately. Even though I think you're cute."

-- Dec. 30, 2007, in response to a question from a Cedar Rapids fourth-grader and "kid reporter" for Scholastic News

"That's a huge issue for so many of my friends who are freshly out of graduate school. . . . My friends are making decisions based on the income level they need to service their debt."

-- Jan. 5, on a bus from Penacook to

Durham, N.H., talking with her mother and