Quotes from Jimmy Hoffa

Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.

There are simply no public figures today who so challenge the elite business and government establishment and so champion the working class as Jimmy Hoffa did almost daily and with arrogance.

I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too.

I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

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 in the country, next to the President.

When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

We never had any silk sheets in our family...

I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.