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 Disappear 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… — Jimmy Hoffa Arrogance 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 Cab 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… — Jimmy Hoffa Announcements Copy Share Image
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor. — Jimmy Hoffa Break 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 Hell 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… — Jimmy Hoffa Depression 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… — Jimmy Hoffa Break 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 Borrowers Copy Share Image
When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too. — Jimmy Hoffa Constitution Copy Share Image
But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as… — Jimmy Hoffa Committees Copy Share Image
When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things. — Jimmy Hoffa Boss Copy Share Image
I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are… — Jimmy Hoffa Animal Copy Share Image
In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than… — Jimmy Hoffa Eight Copy Share Image
From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles. — Jimmy Hoffa Jimmy Copy Share Image
In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers. — Jimmy Hoffa Forty Copy Share Image
Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart… — Jimmy Hoffa Hell Copy Share Image
More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his… — Jimmy Hoffa Advent Copy Share Image
Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had… — Jimmy Hoffa Able 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… — Jimmy Hoffa Accepting Copy Share Image
