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Jimmy Hoffa Biography

James Riddle Hoffa (February 14, 1913 – disappeared July 30, 1975) was an American labor union leader who served as the President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) union from 1958 until 1971. He vanished in late July 1975, at age 62.

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

Memories, Recall, Recollection, Remember

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.

Influential, Matter, Power, Rich, Smart

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

Faults, History, May, Wrong

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.

Angel, Dirty, Hold, Mafia, Tricks

A slab of bread "buttered" with lard and, if you were lucky, seasoned with salt and pepper, was a luxury.

Bread, Lucky, Luxury, Pepper, Salt, Slab

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

Heart, Home, Let, Man, Men

I don't need a bodyguard.

Needs, Bodyguard

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.

Armed, Believe, Hard, Phones, Russia, Tapped

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

Break, Day, Labor, Men, Rome

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 they'll challenge the unions and try to get back what they call managements prerogatives, meaning hire, fire, pay what you want.

Challenges, Consistently, Fire, Trying, Unemployment, Union

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

Power, Needs, Management, Forty, Handshake, Days

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

Build, Casinos, Customers, Hotel, Hotels, Vegas

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

Worse

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

Constitution, Forget, Prison

When you run an organization like the Teamsters one man has to be the boss and run things.

Boss, Men, Organization, Running, Teamsters

I can tell you this on a stack of Bibles: prisons are archaic, brutal, unregenerative, overcrowded hell holes where the inmates are treated like animals with absolutely not one humane thought given to what they are going to do once they are released. You're an animal in a cage and you're treated like one.

Animal, Brutal, Inmates, Liberty, Stack, Tell

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.

Government, Class, Challenges, Elite, Working

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

Intend, Politics, Strong, Tell, Weak

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.

Days, Depression, Guts, Led, Misery, Violent

It has to be considered damned unusual that no other union was ever investigated.

Considered, Damned, Investigated, Union, Unions, Unusual

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