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

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.

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

He did it with all his heart and prospered.

I think I'll always be famous. I just hope I don't become infamous.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

I do not think that I am a person who cannot be trusted.

Pursued by our origins... we all are.

I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

Most men appear wiser in their doubts than in their belief.

Worship does not become worship until it changes the way we live

For me it comes down to one thing: I'm trying to follow my own nature.