The Quotable Chelsea Clinton

Thursday, April 10, 2008

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

four young voters about student debt

"She says if she could have ended the war yesterday, she would have. . . . She was the first person running for president to write to the Pentagon and say, 'What are you doing to plan to end this war?' "

-- Feb. 11, in response to a question from

student holding a "Hillary Is Pro-War" sign

at the University of Wisconsin

"The full stretch of my political aspiration is to help her be my president."

-- Feb. 13, at Sinclair Community College in Dayton, Ohio

"Wow, you're the first person actually that's ever asked me that question in the, I don't know maybe, 70 college campuses I've now been to, and I do not think that is any of your business."

-- March 25, in response to a question on

Monica Lewinsky

at Butler University in Indianapolis

"A vote for Hillary is a vote for Hillary. I'm really proud of what my father did in the '90s, but I don't think you should vote for or against my mother based on my father."

-- March 31, at the University of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill

"I think that she understands more of what it takes to be president than he did because of her eight years in the White House with him."

-- April 2, at York College in York, Pa., saying her mother would make

a better president than her father

"She's always said that we landed under the threat of sniper fire. She misspoke once and said it without 'the threat of.' "

-- April 8, at the University of Southern

Indiana in Evansville, about her mother's

comments about a 1996 trip to Bosnia