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Campaign is when we did something out of political expediency rather than just telling the truth. and we lost. >> john mccain, the maverick who rocked the republican establishment with dramatic wins in new hampshire and michigan, today chose an equally dramatic setting to halt his campaign. >> i am no longer an active candidate for my party's nomination for president. mccain says he will now go back to the senate. his presidential bus ride over, but he vows his crusade will go on. >> i would say he's one of the few politicians i've ever covered who has an authentic inner voice. even when he do...

Themselves. i did not answer the question i was asked, how did i personally feel about the flag? my ancestors fought for the consed fed asy, and i am sure that many if not all of them fought with courage with the faith that -- i don't believe their service, however distinguished, needs to be commemorated in a way that offends, that deeply hurts people whose ancestors were once denied their freedom by my ancestors. that, my friends, is how i personally feel about the confederate battle flag. i should have done this earlier. i did not do so for one reason alone. i feared that if i answered hones...

When he compromises for political reasons, he knows he's compromising some piece of himself. and i think there's some piece of himself that feels pretty bad about it. >> i promised to tell the truth always about my intentions and my beliefs. i fell short of that standard in south carolina, and i want to tell the people of south carolina and all americans that i sincerely regret breaking my promise to always tell you the truth. i was asked during the course of my campaign how i personally felt about the confederate battle flag that flies above your state capitol. i answered that it was an issue...

Battle flag as a symbol of heritage. >> it was one of the very few instances where we didn't follow our instincts, rather than following the polling data. the only bad period of the campaign is when we did something out of political expediency rather than just telling the truth. and we lost. >> john mccain, the maverick who brought the republican establishment with dramatic wins in new hampshire and michigan, today chose an equally dramatic setting to halt his campaign. >> i am no longer an active candidate for my party's nomination for president. mccain says he will now go back to the senate....

This is an attack piece. >> this is not by my campaign. >> it says paid for by john mccain. >> that is not my campaign. >> somebody is putting stuff out. >> it was getting bad. and he says, look, i want to take off all the negative campaign ads, i want to go positive. and i said, well, what do you mean? take off the negative campaign ads, we're in a slug fest of our lives. this is, you know, battle to the death. and he said, nope, i want to run a campaign that my daughter will be proud of. i'd rather lose an honorable campaign than win a dishonorable one. >> senator mccain and governor bush ar...