Jimmy Hoffa
Jimmy Hoffa
James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffawas an American labor union leader and author who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamstersunion from 1958 until 1971. He vanished in late July 1975 at age 62...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth14 February 1913
CountryUnited States of America
Jimmy Hoffa quotes about
thinking guy tough
Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?
believe russia phones
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.
sheets our-family silk
We never had any silk sheets in our family...
water president hell
They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water.
needs bodyguard
I don't need a bodyguard.
running gun knives
Run from a knife and rush a gun.
misery violent guts
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.
might mcclellan whiskey
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.
years eight president
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.
dirty angel mafia
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.
men rome break
Rome wasn't built in a day, but man, did they get a break on the labor.
faults may being-wrong
I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
class government challenges
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.