Quotes about Teamsters Union

Michelle Malkin

Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the 'Jersey Shore' cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union's leader than he can disown his own id.

Jimmy Hoffa

We like to keep an eye on the rascals.

Hoffa's Washington office had a large picture window overlooking the U. S. Capitol.

Hilda Solis

My father was a member of the Teamsters Union in California, where he helped to organize better health care for workers. My mother worked for more than 20 years on an assembly line.

Gerald R. Ford

Well, if the Teamsters and the truckers are against it, it must be a pretty good bill.

The President was considering a bill to deregulate the trucking industry and was informed by the Secretary of Transportation that the truck owners and the truck drivers' union were both opposed to the bill.

James P. Hoffa

I will never apologize for standing up for my fellow Teamsters and all American workers.

James P. Hoffa

The mob's not coming back in the Teamsters Union. We've gotten rid of them, and we're free to be free of government supervision.

Jimmy Hoffa

All my life I have been under investigation.... I will just have to hire 200 more lawyers to keep me out of jail.

The younger Kennedy, as Counsel to a Senate Investigating Committee, had made it his mission to show the infiltration and connection of Hoffa and his Teamsters' Union and organized crime. Despite his relentless questioning and investigation, Robert Kennedy was unable to prove and criminal connections and Hoffa denied that the ever existed. But with RFK as Attorney General, many thought Hoffa would be relentlessly persecuted and that he would be worried. But he never appeared so, and the Attorney General was not able to pin anything on Hoffa.

Spike Lee

'Do the Right Thing' was my first union film. I looked at the rosters, and for the most part, it was white males. Especially the Teamsters. So we had some conversations.

James P. Hoffa

If we're all together, we have money, and we start to organize, you're going to see the Teamsters Union start to bloom.

James P. Hoffa

The teamsters union is as free of corruption as any great institution.

Michelle Malkin

Instead of putting Americans to work, the Teamsters have been busy yanking members off projects and idling construction projects from California to Indiana to New York in order to shake down employers.

Teamsters Union Quotes