George H.W. Bush: “Well no, we'll have a meeting without having every ``t'' crossed and every ``i'' dotted on a treaty. But on a question…”

“Well no, we'll have a meeting without having every ``t'' crossed and every ``i'' dotted on a treaty. But on a question of this importance that you mentioned, encryption of data, we've got to make progress. I mean, that's one of the remaining issues, frankly, and I have not gotten from our experts--one of them who is standing next to me--exactly how much progress we may have made there. But we can't duck that. We don't want to mislead the United States Congress, and there's no point in suggesting that there's not a problem when there is. But that's one that we have to make real progress on, and they know it.”