Obama conceded that “we still have a long way to go,” but said that his administration stabilized the economy and laid a “new foundation to move forward.”
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Just a week before, Obama touted in his State of the Union address the “fastest economic growth in over a decade” and pledged to build on those gains by focusing on expanding the middle class.
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But speaking with Zakaria in New Delhi, India after a productive three-day visit, Obama also pointed to his work to strengthen partnerships with Asian partners — trading partners, specifically — including with India.
“Strengthening alliances with countries like India, where there’s just enormous potential, and sometimes we don’t pay a lot of attention to it, but I’ve been paying a lot of attention to it. Because I think that our future prosperity and security is going to be tied up with how we’re doing with 1.2 billion aspiring Indians who share our values and share democracy with us,” Obama said.
