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'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.

It is said that ‘Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder’. I say, ‘Perfection lies in the heart of the receiver.

I have many favorite artists...Van Gough as one, but he didn't really sing a lot!

I don't believe that heaven waits for only those who congregate.

The only difference between 'propaganda' and 'education,' really, is in the point of view. The advocacy of what we believe in is education. The advocacy of what we don't believe in is propaganda.

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

She was my destination. I was always on the way to Lena, even when I wasn't. Even when she wasn't on her way to me.

The Iranians are very skilled terrorist, and we'd have to expect that they'd hit at us as hard as they could. Especially in Iraq, where they have a great deal of power and influence.

There's no better satisfaction than watching the people around you, who have worked day and night to get something right, realising the dream.

Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.