Azerbaijani Quotes

“A huge majority know nothing of the idea or ideal of the nation.
We remain without a compass and our society, like a group of lunatics, fights among itself.”
― Mehmet Emin Resulzade

“Even if you forget you're a Turk, your enemy will not.”
― Ebulfez Elchibey

“The Turks have an army that goes back to the Ottoman Empire. Our army is very new.
But there's a world of difference already between the early 1990's and now (early 2000). The food and pay, it's all better.”
― An Azerbaijani colonel

“It's the symbol of freedom (the gray wolf) for all the Turks. We are all Gray Wolves now, and Elchibey is the leader of a greater Turkic world!”
― An Azerbaijani officer

“A flag once raised will never fall!”
― Mehmet Emin Resulzade

“Remember we Azeris had barely a single general. But I was the one who got the Russian army out of our country.
Remember, I talked in Turkish through a translator to Yeltsin, not in Russian, something that was never done before. Yeltsin once hit his spoon on Akayev's head, but I refused to let them do such things to me.”
― Ebulfez Elchibey

“I left the door open for Aliyev. I thought, he won't let Russia back in. Remember, Soviet Russia had crushed him and thrown him out.”
― Ebulfez Elchibey