Hell, I'm not saying I'm an angel, but when it came to dirty tricks I couldn't hold a candle to the Irish Mafia.

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

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

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

I do to others what they do to me, only worse.

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.

But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more than 2 million and made it the largest single labor union the world.

Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Run from a knife and rush a gun.

The difference between you and me is that I always forgive you.

The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals.

Men love war because it allows them to look serious because it is the only thing that stops women laughing at them.

I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.

I don't like telling really talented people who are amazing what they should do. I'm just going to let them be. It has to be complete freedom - creativity has to be complete freedom.

I wore bulletproof vests, and my bodyguards had the option of having bulletproof vests - I bought five sets.

What I term Zen, old Zen, the original face of Zen, new Zen, pure Zen, or Tantric Zen is - Zen in its essence.

History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance.

People expect you to play your best, so I go through a routine to prepare myself so that I know I'm physically and mentally ready - prepared for the game.

I teach film directing, inasmuch as you can. Its not really possible to teach film direction, but I sit there as a sort of testimony of experience and know-how, I suppose.