It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.

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.

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.

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.

Humans are almost always lonely.

Like putting a name to my problems would solve anything

Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.

You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside.

While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.

Evil is movement towards void.

It's impossible to imagine our planet without coral.

No public character has ever stood the revelation of private utterance and correspondence.

Part of Washington keeping its promises is a focus on directing more dollars into our local classrooms.

If you constantly dwell on the past that's where you end up living.