45 Quotes by Jimmy Hoffa

I don't need a bodyguard.

Run from a knife and rush a gun.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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