Jimmy Hoffa quotes

When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too. (Jimmy Hoffa)
They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water. View quote
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I've said consistently that no employer ever really accepts a union. They tolerate the unions. The very minute they can get a pool of unemployment they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want. View quote
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I do to others what they do to me, only worse. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties which led to labor's bloodiest and most violent days. View quote
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But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation that comes in front of us, we are successful in getting from the employers what are members want and need without strikes. View quote
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Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers. View quote
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When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things. (Jimmy Hoffa)
Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike? View quote
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We never had any silk sheets in our family... View quote
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It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated. View quote
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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. View quote
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A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury. View quote
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Our rooms were bugged, our phones were tapped, and our lawyer's rooms were broken into and their files stolen. We finally had to hire armed guards with pistols to be able to maintain our records. It was hard to believe we weren't in Russia. View quote
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I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them. View quote
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I let him strain for a couple of seconds. Then like taking candy from a baby, I flipped his arm over and cracked his knuckles on the top of the table. It was strictly no contest and he knew it. But he had to try again. Same results. View quote
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Run from a knife and rush a gun. View quote
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I don't need bodyguards. (Jimmy Hoffa)
Nobody in this country respects what's weak. You believe me! View quote
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I'll be back. View quote
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