Asked how far he would have continued to support Kirkbride, the Tory leader said: "I have to be tough and I have to take difficult decisions, of course, and I've shown that I am absolutely prepared to do that.
I am absolutely prepared to do whatever it takes to make amends with you.
"If we cannot be properly reimbursed for the tremendous cost of our military protecting other countries...then yes, I would be absolutely prepared to tell those countries, "Congratulations, you will be defending yourself".
"I think that most of us are absolutely prepared to believe that if the building owners, engineers and other powers that be tell us the building is safe, it's safe," said Pam Sloan, a partner with Flemming, Zulack and Williamson, a law firm on the 35th floor.
"I think the right of the right is absolutely prepared to revolt.
"We are absolutely prepared," said cabinet secretary, KM Chandrasekhar.
"We're completely, unabashedly and absolutely prepared to say that we're pretentious and superficial".
"We have never seen him come to the stage without being absolutely prepared," Fiona Simon says.
"They are absolutely prepared to begin to respond with respect to troops..
Cabinet secretary, KM Chandrasekhar, told CNN-IBN television: "We are absolutely prepared".
