Jimmy Hoffa Quotes

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• 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

  Fire, Challenges, Trying

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 213), 1975.

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• 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

  Strong, Politics, Weak

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Home, Heart, Men

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Power, Needs, Management

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• I do to others what they do to me, only worse.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  "Hoffa" by Arthur A. Sloane, (p. 77), 1991.

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• I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  History, May, Faults

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• Run from a knife and rush a gun.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Running, Gun, Knives

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• 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

  Class, Government, Challenges

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• To the best of my recollection, I must recall on my memory, I cannot remember

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Memories, Remember, Recollection

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• 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

  Mcclellan, Might, Whiskey

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 121), 1975.

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Men, Rome, Break

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• 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

  Years, Eight, President

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 13), 1975.

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• 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

  Dirty, Angel, Mafia

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 128), 1975.

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• 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

  Believe, Russia, Phones

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 164), 1975.

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• I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Animal, Liberty, Inmates

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• 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

  Misery, Violent, Guts

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 27), 1975.

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• 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

  Country, Powerful, Men

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• I don't need a bodyguard.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Needs, Bodyguard

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Sheets, Our Family, Silk

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 96), 1975.

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• 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

  Successful, Organization, Needs

  YouTube Chanel "CBC"/ "Retrobites: Jimmy Hoffa (1960) | CBC", www.youtube.com. December 11, 2008.

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Luxury, Bread, Peppers

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 28), 1975.

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Constitution, Prison, Forget

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 187), 1975.

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• 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

  Water, President, Hell

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 24), 1975.

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• 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

  Thinking, Guy, Tough

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 92), 1975.

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

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Running, Men, Organization

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 22-23), 1975.

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