Top 95 Hoffa's Quotes
#1. He's not just the most powerful man in labor," Robert Kennedy had said in the wake of Hoffa's announcement; "he's the most powerful man in the country, next to the President.
Jimmy Hoffa
#2. I know what it's like to be different. I'm a Native American in a white world.
Tamara Hoffa
#3. Okay, Charlie, you can do this, all you have to do is convince a career military man that your son shouldn't join the Army. That shouldn't be too hard, right?
Tamara Hoffa
#4. Corporate tax dodging impacts us across generations and over time. It is corrosive. It is unethical. It is unsustainable.
James P. Hoffa
#5. Are there any other missing persons living under your roof? Elvis? Jimmy Hoffa? Amelia Earhart? I'd just like full disclosure now, before we go any further.
Maggie Stiefvater
#6. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#7. When you're growing up, you want to feel part of something.
Reese Hoffa
#9. I do to others what they do to me, only worse.
Jimmy Hoffa
#10. Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!
Red Buttons
#11. You can't live your life in a bubble, Charlie. And you can't live Evan's life for him. He won't thank you if you try to wrap him in bubble wrap and set him on a shelf.
Tamara Hoffa
#12. When you have lost people like I lost my birth mom at a young age and you remember the whole process of losing her, you want to grab on to something that makes you whole.
Reese Hoffa
#13. All I wanted to do was please my adopted family.
Reese Hoffa
#14. It takes a strong character for a person to say, 'I can't do it.'
Reese Hoffa
#15. From 1955 until 1965 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as Elvis Presley. From 1965 until 1975 Jimmy Hoffa was as famous as the Beatles.
Jimmy Hoffa
#16. Today we are united, strong and on the move. Today we have a strong strike fund. Today we have the resources to run large-scale organizing campaigns against global employers. Today we have $100 million in the bank.
James P. Hoffa
#17. Is Jimmy Hoffa dead or does he work at the National Enquirer with Elvis and Bigfoot?
M.J. McGuire
#18. 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.
James P. Hoffa
#19. When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.
Jimmy Hoffa
#20. We didn't start this war - the right wing did. We're tired of seeing good-paying jobs shipped overseas. This fight is about the economy, it's about jobs and it's about rebuilding America.
James P. Hoffa
#21. Workers want to be paid an honest, fair wage for the work they do. They want to be able to provide for their families by being justly compensated for their part in helping grow the U.S. economy. They deserve to be able to put food on the table and receive health care and other benefits.
James P. Hoffa
#22. Meg was all natural. She didn't wear a lot of makeup, but her skin was so smooth, dotted with angel kisses, as his mother called freckles. He wanted to trace those freckles with his tongue, kiss each one and see if they covered her whole body or only parts kissed by the sun.
Tamara Hoffa
#25. I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.
Jimmy Hoffa
#26. Unfair trade deals like the North American Free Trade Agreement eviscerated good-paying manufacturing jobs, putting more than 3 million U.S. workers out of work.
James P. Hoffa
#27. Congress has turned its back on America's working families. There are Teamster families in every congressional district in America, and those families vote. Those who would oppose these families have done so at their own political peril.
James P. Hoffa
#28. Uh oh, maybe I'm hysterical. No, the look on his face had been so funny. Did he really think to kiss me into submission? That shit might work in romance novels, but not on me. If he wants to kiss me he'll have to earn that privilege again.
Tamara Hoffa
#29. What's going on in this country? Unions stand against those trends. We've got to somehow insulate the robust American economy from this global economy that seems to want to devour our standard of living.
James P. Hoffa
#30. It's a success story here in Michigan. We have hiring going on. We have new industries going on.
James P. Hoffa
#31. The hand at her back stroked up and down. Never straying too far south, but igniting a fire inside her that she wanted this fireman to stoke instead of extinguish
Tamara Hoffa
#32. To paraphrase the disappeared Jimmy Hoffa, who certainly didn't go down in history for his foolish worries: "Eighty-five percent of what you worry about won't ever come to pass. And you can always deal with that other fifteen percent." Of course, look what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
M.A. Harper
#33. They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.
Jimmy Hoffa
#34. Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.
Jimmy Hoffa
#35. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#36. Improving the outlook for U.S workers isn't about creating millions of minimum-wage jobs. It is about creating sustainable, skilled employment that allows Americans to earn a fair wage with benefits that allows them to pay for housing and food on the table and sustain a middle-class lifestyle.
James P. Hoffa
#37. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#38. When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.
Jimmy Hoffa
#39. We've got to keep an eye on the battle that we face - a war on workers. And you see it everywhere. It is the Tea Party. And there's only one way to beat and win that war - the one thing about working people is, we like a good fight.
James P. Hoffa
#40. If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.
James P. Hoffa
#41. Sharon looked at Aaron and smiled. She'd made the right decision, hadn't she? Would she come to regret this decision too? She'd made so many mistakes in the past. Was this another one? No, self-doubt isn't an option. Everything is going to work out here. It has to.
Tamara Hoffa
#42. I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.
Reese Hoffa
#43. 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.
James P. Hoffa
#44. There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.
Louis Stokes
#45. At first I could not believe what I was reading. I got up from my seat and walked away, talking to myself that I may have found my mom.
Reese Hoffa
#46. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#47. Shifters mate for life. We have one true mate and when we meet, we know immediately. By scent. Instinct. You are mine.
Tamara Hoffa
#48. We never had any silk sheets in our family ...
Jimmy Hoffa
#49. She always thought of Aaron as special not less. He was God's gift to her, and she wouldn't trade him for the world.
Tamara Hoffa
#50. Public sector employees are the eyes and ears on the ground for the communities they serve.
James P. Hoffa
#51. When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.
Jonathan Gruber
#52. He framed her face with his calloused hands and looked down at her. His beautiful blue eyes searched her face and all her fears fled. In his eyes she saw everything she needed. Gentleness, kindness, passion and ... maybe, just maybe a hint of love.
Tamara Hoffa
#53. Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
James P. Hoffa
#54. Damn, she better get her imagination under control or she was going to be in trouble. She stole another glance in his direction, her eyes locked onto the bulge in his lap. Well lookie there. Maybe I'm not the only one having carnal thoughts
Tamara Hoffa
#55. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#56. A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.
Jimmy Hoffa
#57. She was so stupid. He was just another cowboy looking for someone to shine his buckle, and she'd fallen for it. What a fool. But, she wasn't a fool anymore. She knew who and what she was, and that man was not coming back into her life. No matter how sexy he still was.
Tamara Hoffa
#58. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#59. I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
#60. In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.
Jimmy Hoffa
#61. Every touch ramped her desire higher and the carnal look in Chad's eyes was making swallowing difficult.By the time the waiter served their coffee, she was ready to throw him down on the table and ravish him in front of God and everybody.
Tamara Hoffa
#62. We must have more union members in this country to fight the political and business forces that are undermining workers in this country. The AFL-CIO has chosen the opposite approach by planning to throw even more money at politicians.
James P. Hoffa
#63. We're going to be very strong with employers in all of our aspects, because I think there's been too much of this idea let's try and get along here, and we've eroded some of our standards.
James P. Hoffa
#64. Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.
Jimmy Hoffa
#65. 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.
Michelle Malkin
#66. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#67. Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.
James P. Hoffa
#69. Her arms crept around his neck and she sunk her hand into the wavy hair at his nape. He was stealing her senses. She needed to stop this ... in just a minute. He was such a good kisser, just the right amount of pressure and passion. She sighed again and moved her hands to his shoulders pushing back.
Tamara Hoffa
#70. Wrapping his arms around her waist, he kissed her cheek. She inhaled his masculine scent, he smelled of engine grease, citrus hand cleaner and man. She turned in his arms and laid her cheek over his beating heart, treasuring the haven of his embrace ...
Tamara Hoffa
#71. What the hell do you think you're doing going and getting yourself kidnapped? You almost gave me apoplexy!" "Well, excuse me Queen of the World. I'm so sorry I inconvenienced you!
Tamara Hoffa
#72. It had been too long since she'd had some hot sex. She wasn't looking for a relationship. No, a one night stand was what she wanted. Anonymous sex with a handsome cowboy that she would never have to see again.
Tamara Hoffa
#73. She loved her son and wanted him to make a fresh start here. Her ex-husband always tried to pass Aaron off as normal, not wanting anyone to know his son was different. She wasn't going to go down that road.
Tamara Hoffa
#74. As Samantha wrapped the ornament in paper, and placed it in a bag, Mrs. Ryan said, "Hearts are like that spun glass, beautiful and fragile, and easily broken." With a Mona Lisa smile, she turned and left the store.
Tamara Hoffa
#75. And some of those people that voted Republican are now going to say, what a mistake I made because I didn't know they were going to take my job away. I didn't know they were going to take collective bargaining away.
James P. Hoffa
#76. Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.
Jimmy Hoffa
#77. Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?
Jimmy Hoffa
#78. The phrase she was so mad she could chew nails and spit screws ran though his mind at her look. Damn. He had really fucked things up between them. Why hadn't he taken her calls again?
Oh, yeah, to give her a chance at a good life.
Tamara Hoffa
#79. 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.
Jimmy Hoffa
#80. More apparent to Teamster members than any moral lapses were the tangible gains that had been steadily realized under Hoffa since his advent to power.
Jimmy Hoffa
#81. We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.
James P. Hoffa
#82. Jimmy Hoffa said, "I know how Jesus must have felt. The fucking pharaohs rose to power on his coattails like the fucking Kennedy brothers are rising on mine."
Heshie Ryskind said, "Get your history straight. It was Julius Caesar that did Jesus in.
James Ellroy
#83. No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.
James P. Hoffa
#84. This is just the beginning of a new era for America's workers.
James P. Hoffa
#85. We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.
James P. Hoffa
#86. It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.
Jimmy Hoffa
#87. I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.
James P. Hoffa
#88. This union has been divided in like a civil war - brother against brother - sister against sister. And I'm pulling it together. We've already seen evidence of that in New York, in Pennsylvania, in California. The first thing is we have to get on the same page. We have to be united in one cause.
James P. Hoffa
#90. She had known for a while that Chance would be her first. She hadn't planned it would be tonight. But, it felt right, Fourth of July, fireworks, and her first time.
Tamara Hoffa
#91. Labor Day is seen as a day of rest for many hardworking Americans.
James P. Hoffa
#92. To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember
Jimmy Hoffa
#93. I burned down our house, and that put a strain on our family.
Reese Hoffa
#94. That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.
James P. Hoffa
#95. 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
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