James P. Hoffa Quotes

United States, Attorney At Law
May 19, 1941

James Phillip Hoffa (born May 19, 1941) is an attorney and labor leader and the General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Hoffa was first elected during December 1998 and took office on March 19, 1999. He was subsequently re-elected in 2001, 2006 and 2011 to five-year terms.

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Anyone who has followed the U.S. economy in recent years can tell you while corporate America and their wealthy executives have recovered from the last recession, middle-class families have not. About 95 percent of income gains between 2009 and 2012 went to the top one percent.

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- America
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.

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- Free

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

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- She
We have to get very militant with some of these employers to say there's no shortcuts, our people have a right to a fair day's wage for a fair day's pay, and we've got to get that done. And that's going to happen.

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- People
- Done