Teamsters Quotes

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. (Jimmy Hoffa)
When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things. View quote
Jimmy Hoffa
What did Jesus Christ say to the Teamsters? 'Do nothing till I get back. View quote
Donald E. Westlake
It was so sweet backstage, you should have seen it - The Teamsters were helping Michael Moore into the trunk of his limo. View quote
Steve Martin
My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line. View quote
Hilda Solis
I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers. View quote
James P. Hoffa
If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom. View quote
James P. Hoffa
The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision. View quote
James P. Hoffa
As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy. View quote
James P. Hoffa
Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id. View quote
Michelle Malkin
Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers. (Michelle Malkin)
We must have scouts, guides, spies, cooks, teamsters, diggers and choppers from the Blacks of the South, whether we allow them to fight for us or not, or we shall be baffled and repelled. View quote
Horace Greeley
'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations. View quote
Spike Lee
We had violence directed at us by the growers themselves, trying to run us down by cars, pointing rifles at us, spraying the people when they were on the picket line with sulfur. And then we had violence by the Teamsters union with the goons that they hired at that time - and by the way, I have to say that the Teamsters union are OK today...They came at us with two by fours. We had a lot of violence, definitely. And then I was beaten up by the police San Francisco [in 1988], which also is shown in the film. View quote
Dolores Huerta
An official of the Teamsters' Union, asked by a Senate hearing if his union was really powerful, responded guardedly but elegantly by saying that being powerful was a little like being ladylike: "If you have to say you are, you prob'ly ain't." View quote
Christopher Hitchens