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…"

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?"

"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…"