Quotes About Hoffa

She probably called to see if you're still alive," Hoffa deadpanned. In a voice meant for everyone to hear, Kennedy said, "I'm still alive, dear. If you hear a big explosion, I probably won't be.

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Starling, I have to retire in two years. If I find Jimmy Hoffa and the Tylenol killer I still have to hang it up. It's not a consideration.

Brennan. Brennan was president of his own Detroit Teamsters local and had an arrest record for violence that included four incidents of bombing company trucks and buildings. Brennan referred to Jimmy as his "brains." Hoffa

Ten days after Hoffa took the oath of office in 1957, the AFL-CIO kicked out the Teamsters, saying that they could get back in only if they got rid of "this corrupt control" of the union by Jimmy Hoffa and his racketeer union officials. On

Future presidential candidates Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona and Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts were members of the committee. The committee's chief counsel and principal interrogator was the future president's younger brother and the nation's future attorney general, Bobby Kennedy. As a result of his aggressive work on the committee, Bobby Kennedy was to become Jimmy Hoffa's mortal enemy. Johnny

At one point Hoffa told Bobby Kennedy regarding the tapes, "To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember." There

As Hoffa told Johnny Dio in one of those wiretapped conversations that he couldn't remember: "… treat them right and you don't have to worry." Although others may have shared his zeal to improve the lives of American working men and women and their families, Jimmy Hoffa had the power to do something about it.

It was a car they said I got under the table. When they were trying to get the eight of us Hoffa suspects on anything they could, they used the car to send me to jail in 1981 on labor racketeering.) The

Bobby Kennedy chose the members of the squad himself. He gave the squad a very limited job to do and gave the squad a very subtle name: "The Get Hoffa Squad." Everything, and I mean everything, came as a result of that.