Quotes About Jimmy Hoffa

#1. When we're done with employer-based health insurance, it will have as much life in it as Jimmy Hoffa.

Jonathan Gruber

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#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. Jacques Cousteau, the last man to see Jimmy Hoffa. Never got a dinner!

Red Buttons

#7. 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

#8. Is Jimmy Hoffa dead or does he work at the National Enquirer with Elvis and Bigfoot?

M.J. McGuire

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.

Jimmy Hoffa

#14. Run from a knife and rush a gun.

Jimmy Hoffa

#15. When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

Jimmy Hoffa

#16. I do to others what they do to me, only worse.

Jimmy Hoffa

#17. 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

#18. We never had any silk sheets in our family ...

Jimmy Hoffa

#19. 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

#20. When you go to prison they forget it's your Constitution, too.

Jimmy Hoffa

#21. 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

#22. 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

#23. Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers.

Jimmy Hoffa

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

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

Jimmy Hoffa

#28. I don't need bodyguards.

Jimmy Hoffa

#29. To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

Jimmy Hoffa

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Jimmy Hoffa

#33. 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

#34. I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

Jimmy Hoffa

#35. In the old days all you needed was a handshake. Nowadays you need forty lawyers.

Jimmy Hoffa

#36. Don't let any man into your cab, your home, or your heart, unless he's a friend of labor.

Jimmy Hoffa

#37. 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

#38. I don't need a bodyguard.

Jimmy Hoffa