"I am sitting in a room... full of fuckin' idiots. You dumb motherfuckers! You know what you did? You take Johnny O'Rourke's kid and you put him on as general organizer, pay thirty-six fucking grand, at the same time... you let him sell insurance to his fucking father's...[leans over the table shaking his head] To his fucking father's... to his fucking father's... LOCALS! [slams table] Damn it! How do you do that? How STUPID can you be? That fucking cocksucker Kennedy has got his nose up my ass everywhere I go! You don't know that they're hounding me? They're looking at everything I do, and you let this happen in public! You're giving it to him! [in a calmer tone] I'm going to jail. You understand? I'm going to prison... because of you. You dumb motherfuckers. This is what you wanted. You wanted to put me in jail. Tell me now so I can kill you... right here. [slams table again] Right here!"

"It's at a point where your gonna have to talk to him and tell him, "It's what it is". It's what they want. It's where it's gotten."

"You don't keep a man waiting. The only time you do is when you want to say something. When you want to say fuck you."

"If they can whack a President, they can whack a president of a union. You know it and I know it."

"[after a flashback in which Hoffa's body is secretly disposed of by incineration] It was no more complicated than that."

"You always charge a guy with a gun! With a knife, you run away."

"If I said it once, I said it a thousand times, I don't care they're Irish. I don't care they're Catholic. If there's one person you can't trust in this life, it's millionaires' kids."

"Frank, I had to put you into this thing, or you would never let it happen, and I know you wouldn't. [pause] But it's gonna happen. Either way, he's going. [pause] I know how you feel, Frank. Trust me. I know how you feel. I told you before, we tried everything to help him, you know that. You tried. He brought this on himself. And it's landing on us. [pause] The only reason they agreed to this, is out of respect to me. But you and Reenie will be okay. Cuz you're with me. You're with me."

"Dag Andersson – Sven"

"[voice over] When I was young, I thought house painters painted houses. What did I know? I was a working guy, a business agent for Teamster Local 107 out of South Philly. [speaking] One of a thousand working stiffs, until I wasn't no more. And then I started painting houses myself."

"Nowadays, young people, they don't know who Jimmy Hoffa was. They don't have a clue. I mean, maybe they know that he disappeared or something, but that's about it. But back then, there wasn't nobody in this country who didn't know who Jimmy Hoffa was."

"Lars Väringer – Sten"

"Joe Pesci - Russell Bufalino"

"Jimmy was a good man, you know? He had a nice family too, huh? I never wanted it to go that far. [pause] I picked us, over him. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em. Fuck 'em."

"Gary Basaraba - Frank "Fitz" Fitzsimmons"

"[about his boss to be] I thought maybe he owned the gas station. 'Cause he owned something, you could tell. Yeah, it turns out he owned the whole road."