I don't want to spend your time, or waste your time,
for you to ask me what went wrong,
and why [it] went wrong.
But for a chief executive... [sniffles]
to have caused this huge havoc to Hong Kong,
is unforgivable.
It's just unforgivable.
If I have a choice, the first thing [I would do] is to quit,
having made a deep apology, is to step down.
So I, I, I...
I make a plea to you for your forgiveness.
I have never tendered a resignation to the Central People's Government.
I have not even contemplated to discuss a resignation
with the Central People's Government.
The choice of not resigning is my own choice.
But if you want to understand, because in a private session,
I just attempted to explain that as an individual,
given the very difficult circumstances,
[it] might be, it was an easy choice to leave.
But I told myself repeatedly in the last three months
that I and my team should stay on to help Hong Kong