Instead he says, "I'm not prepared to have a real conversation with you, here and now."

"If we are the only country in the world prepared to have those high standards, then so be it."

And, you know, I was prepared to have a try.

"How many of you are prepared to have young women come home in body bags?"

"But it certainly looks like they are prepared to have the market tighten for them."

When are we finally going to be prepared to have a system of international financial relations that shows some respect for human dignity?

Moreover, would the country be prepared to have three different men as President in just 16 months?

It was something he had been prepared to have happen all these years.

"Very well," he said, "but be prepared to have your visit cut short at any moment."