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

I've told you before and I'll tell you again. The strong survive and the weak disappear. We do not intend to disappear.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Run from a knife and rush a gun.

Those of us who are most genuinely repelled by war and violence are also those who are most likely to decide that some things, after all, are worth fighting for.

Smile like you are a winner and you will win over people around you. Smile.

I knew revenge like the ghost of an old friend." ~ #1001

A good heart will help you to a bonny face my lad ... and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.

A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.

Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.

Nothin' ain't worth nothin' but it's free.

Hollywood has always been political. They consider it their right and duty to tell us what is politically good and right.

Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance. It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.