Jimmy Hoffa

"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 w…"

"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…"

"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…"

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

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

"They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water."

"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."

"We never had any silk sheets in our family..."