- Jimmy Hoffa: If a guy's close to you, you can't slight 'im. You can't slight that guy. A real grievance can be resolved; differences can be resolved. But an imaginary hurt, a slight - that motherfucker gonna hate you 'til the day he dies.
- Jimmy Hoffa: [cut to conversation with Robert Kennedy] ... and fuck you, too! Guy need his brother elected fuckin' President of the United States to get a job. You're a joke. You woulda been a bond salesman somewheres. You're the brother-in-law they make jokes about.
- Robert Kennedy: I don't know what you're trying to prove, but you're proving it... you're proving it, Hoffa.
- Jimmy Hoffa: I'm provin' what? You got nothin' on me. You got a TV show.
- Robert Kennedy: The Justice Department has plenty on you, Mr. Hoffa.
- Jimmy Hoffa: You don't impress me, and your office don't impress me, and your family don't impress me. Bunch of rumrunners. And I don't need 300 million dollars and my brother elected President to whop your fuckin' ass, you slimy little prick! I beat your ass, that trumped-up charge down south, I'm gonna beat you again! There is no organized crime, the Teamsters...
- Robert Kennedy: [interupting Hoffa] I am gonna see you in jail, Mr. Hoffa! In jail!
- Jimmy Hoffa: For what? What did I fuckin' do?
- Government Attorney: Your loans, Mr. Hoffa. Your loans, for one thing.
- Jimmy Hoffa: The pension fund... the pension fund has the best record in the country on loans.
- Robert Kennedy: Aw, bullshit!
- Jimmy Hoffa: Best record in the country!
- Robert Kennedy: Bullshit!
- Jimmy Hoffa: For the working man! You ever heard of work? You know what work is?
- Robert Kennedy: [speaks to government attorney, then back to Hoffa] Look, I want this man in jail, and I'm not going to stop until I see you behind bars!
- Jimmy Hoffa: Who in the fuck are you? Who the fuck are you? Fuck you, and fuck your threats, and fuck your brother!
- Robert Kennedy: [leaps out of his chair] What did you say?
- Jimmy Hoffa: [as he leaves room and slams door] You heard me!
- Robert Kennedy: [walks towards door] What the fuck did you say?
- [shouting towards closed door]
- Robert Kennedy: I don't succumb to pressure, and I don't succumb to threats!
- Jimmy Hoffa: [to Frank] I'm gonna give ya a piece of advice. Don't ask for something if it's a burden to ya if ya get it.
- [while handcuffed]
- Bobby Ciaro: I can't even scratch myself.
- Jimmy Hoffa: Do you itch?
- Bobby Ciaro: No.
- Jimmy Hoffa: What the fuck are you complaining about then?
- Bobby Ciaro: Someday, your gonna be president of the United States.
- Jimmy Hoffa: Fuck that. Someday, I'm gonna be president of the Teamsters.
- Carol D'Allesandro: [to Hoffa, of mourners at a union funeral] They'd rather some people die... for your mistake... than that they lived... but that they lacked a leader.
- Cop: You think someday, you're gonna organize the cops?
- Jimmy Hoffa: Hey that's easy, someday, I'm gonna organize the crooks.
- Jimmy Hoffa: [to Bobby] Never let a stranger in your cab, in your house or in your heart... unless he is a friend of labor.
- Reporter: You could've anticipated this.
- Jimmy Hoffa: In every conflict there are casualties. The question is, what has been lost and what has been gained?
- Reporter: What about...
- Jimmy Hoffa: Make the rest of it up yourself!
- Jimmy Hoffa: [to Bobby Ciaro, on Carol D'Allesandro, who has kept him waiting for hours, in his car, for a "simple meeting"] You fuckin' Wops!... You people... Ya cocksucker, why you wanna be born into a race like this?
- Jimmy Hoffa: [to Frank] You know what they used to say in the old days, tell me now or else I'm going to find out about it anyway.
- [first lines]
- Bobby Ciaro: Want me to go call him up?
- Jimmy Hoffa: Uh-unh.
- Bobby Ciaro: Want a cup of coffee?
- Jimmy Hoffa: No.
- Bobby Ciaro: Want to go?
- [Hoffa gives him a scornful glance]
- Bobby Ciaro: You okay?
- Jimmy Hoffa: Yeah.
- Bobby Ciaro: It goes without saying, Jimmy believes in you, you wouldn't be where you are, and he know if you didn't believe in him, he wouldn't be where he is, now's not the time to trust anybody, you didn't go to school with the guy. I don't care what kind of badge he's got stuck up his lapel, you do not know him, any questions come to Pete Connelly or me.
- Scialla: [speaking Italian]
- Bobby Ciaro: [translating into English] He says you're costing him a lot of money and you're pissing on his whole operation.
- Jimmy Hoffa: You want to...
- Scialla: [speaking Italian]
- Bobby Ciaro: He said to shut up.
- Scialla: [speaking Italian]
- Bobby Ciaro: [translating into English] He says why shouldn't he take you into an alley and beat you until you beg for death?
- Scialla: [speaking Italian]
- Bobby Ciaro: This is the question.
- Scialla: [speaking Italian]
- Bobby Ciaro: When you fuck with his livelihood and the livelihood of the people under his protection.
- Scialla: [speaking Italian]
- Bobby Ciaro: [translating into English] Why shouldn't he kill you?
- Scialla: [speaking Italian]
- Bobby Ciaro: [translating into English] He says if you were in his place, what would you do?
- Jimmy Hoffa: Tell him if he gives me a cup of coffee, I'll answer his questions.
- Bobby Ciaro: [to Pete] Do not take no for an answer, because if you will not take no for an answer, eventually the answer come back yes.
- Jimmy Hoffa: [to Carol] What do I want you to do? I want you to kill the cocksucker! I want you to stuff his arms up his ass, that's what I fuckin' want!
- Bobby Ciaro: He wants to know what you're scared of.
- Jimmy Hoffa: Tell him it's none of his fucking business.
- Frank Fitzsimmons: I'm gonna go and get laid. Come with me.
- Jimmy Hoffa: Ahh, I'm busy. You go get laid.
- Billy Flynn: [to Bobby] Give me the fuckin' knife. You wanna go around, buy a gun. Go like a white man.