"..the Tibetan Administration and population in exile, and more especially the Tibetans in Tibet are striving hard for independence"
(Guidelines for Future Tibet's Polity and Basic Features of its Constitution)

"I have always stated that the central issue is that the Tibetan people must ultimately choose their own destiny. It is not for the Dalai Lama, and certainly not for the Chinese to make that decision. It should ultimately be the wishes of the Tibetan people that should prevail"
(The Dalai Lama, Yale University, 9th October 1991)