Jimmy Hoffa Quotes
I don't need bodyguards.
Hoffa, James R., and Oscar Fraley. Hoffa: The Real Story. Stein and Day, 1975.
It emasculated people to be protected in this way... [They should] be used to protecting themselves.
Commenting on the efforts of the government to regulate working conditions:
Earlier in the Arab-Israeli conflict United Nations troops were stationed at the borders to prevent either side from attacking the other. The Arabs mounted a major attack and the United Nations troops ran and did not fight. Ever since then, Israel policy was never to depend on any other than Israel to defend the country and the people.
James Riddle Hoffa was an American labor union leader who served as the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) from 1957 until 1971.