Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev:

We do not need anyone’s help or patronage. When we needed help, no one helped us. When we had one million refugees, no one extended a hand to us.

Everything we obtained, we bought with money, including all our weapons — at world market prices, down to the last bullet.

Not once did anyone give us even a one-manat or one-dollar discount. Sometimes they even sold to us at several times the world market price, and we were forced to turn a blind eye to it.