The Palestinians came with extreme and illogical positions and demands that the Israeli prime minister was not able to accept, and therefore we reached the conclusion that we cannot reach agreement at the moment that would put an end to the conflict. That's why we are going back home.

We will try to see if there are grounds for continuing this effort.

To be honest, the campaign so far is more boring than dirty.

It won't be a whole lot of time. ... President Clinton will return to Camp David ... and then we will see if there's any point in staying here and going on with the talks or to pack the luggage and return home.