Power leads to more power, no matter what your racket, and not only were they rich and influential but they were smart as hell, too..

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

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

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….

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 lar….

Run from a knife and rush a gun..

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 can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like anim….

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 ….

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

Sure, we loaned money to build hotels and casinos in Las Vegas. So what? Las Vegas borrowers were good customers..

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 wi….

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

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 th….

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 an….

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 s….

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

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 countr….

They all know I'm back, very much back, and that I will be the general president again come hell or high water..