"But because we are financially solid, because we do have an organization that is equipped to handle any situation tha…"

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

"In the ten years I was president of the Teamsters, I had raised the membership from eight hundred thousand to more th…"

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

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

"You almost had to live through it to really know the gut ripping misery of the depression during the early thirties w…"

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

"Mob guys had muscle, and where in hell do you think employers got the tough guys when they wanted to break a strike?"

"We never had any silk sheets in our family..."

"Nobody in this country respects what's weak. You believe me! If you see a beggar on a corner, with his hat in his han…"