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Edward Burkhardt, chairman of Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway, held a news conference in Lac-Megantic, Que., on Wednesday to discuss last weekend’s fatal train derailment. Here’s what he said:

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“A whole lot less than Saturday.” — When asked how much he is worth.

“Let the chips fall where they may.” — Response to a question about possible criminal charges.

“I don’t think he’ll be back working for us.” — Response to a question about an engineer he says failed to properly set the brakes on the train.

“We owe an abject apology to the people in this town.”

“I feel absolutely awful about this. I’m devastated by what’s occurred in this community. I have never been involved in anything remotely approaching this in my whole life.”

“Later, we’ll clean up all the wrecked cars and build track back and start to run trains through here again. Very carefully, I might tell you.”