In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to… — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike? — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers. — Jimmy Hoffa Copy Share Image
