Secretary of State Blinken Issues Remarks at U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum Event
June 24, 2023
June 24, 2023
WASHINGTON, June 24 -- The U.S. State Department issued the following remarks on June 23, 2023, by Secretary Antony J. Blinken at a U.S.-India Strategic Partnership Forum event:
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SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you, everyone. Good evening. It's wonderful to be with all of you this evening. Now, I have to say, Mukesh, it's a little bit intimidating to be in the same sentence with Thomas Jefferson, but I appreciate it. (Laughter.) And I also have to say as a onetime aspirin . . .
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SECRETARY BLINKEN: Thank you, everyone. Good evening. It's wonderful to be with all of you this evening. Now, I have to say, Mukesh, it's a little bit intimidating to be in the same sentence with Thomas Jefferson, but I appreciate it. (Laughter.) And I also have to say as a onetime aspirin . . .