John Kennedy

I filed the MSRB Reform Act, along with Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones, because the board that oversees the muni-bond market is too secretive and too incestuous. Its membership shares the same DNA. That means the rulebook for municipal bonds is in the hands of a board that resembles a revolving door of longtime industry confederates.

American Lawyer

William Safire

What do you call a co-worker these days? Neither teammate nor confederate will do, and partner is too legalistic. The answer brought from academia to the political world by Henry Kissinger and now bandied in the boardroom is colleague. It has a nice upper-egalitarian feel, related to the good fellowship of collegial.

American Author

Lysander Spooner

What is the motive to the secret ballot? This, and only this: Like other confederates in crime, those who use it are not friends, but enemies; and they are afraid to be known, and to have their individual doings known, even to each other.

American Philosopher

Han Fei

If ministers forget their ruler and establish relationships with foreign powers in order to advance the interests of their confederates, there will be scant reason for subordinates to obey their superiors.

Chinese Philosopher

Loretta Lynch

Criminal conduct by police officers, federal agents, and their confederates cannot be tolerated and will be met with the full force of the law.

American Public Servant

Stacey Abrams

Confederate monuments belong in museums where we can study and reflect on that terrible history, not in places of honor across our state.

American Politician

Bill Nelson

Confederate statues belong in a historical museum, not in a place of honor.

Used without negative or positive connotations to describe cooperation.

Neutral Term

Confederate doesn't imply secrecy, unlike 'conspirator' or 'accomplice'.

Not Secretive

Often used in formal contexts or official communications.

Formal Context

Refers specifically to the American Civil War context.

Specific History

Some find the term offensive due to its association with slavery.

Cultural Sensitivity

This use of 'confederate' is specific to the United States history.

Not Universal

Using 'Confederate' can signal a stance on current social debates.

Cultural Conflict

Don't use this term to describe current political or state entities.

No Modern State

Reflects awareness and understanding of the American Civil War.

Historical Awareness

 that we had posed waiting to cross at a crosswalk. Now in California, as you all know, because I'm sure we all do this, it's the law to stop for a pedestrian who's waiting to cross. So here's an example of how we did it. That's our confederate off to the left, posing as a pedestrian.

Does money make you...

 with a fierce passion there were wounds that would take a long time to heal and that was cause no amount of time would remove however as the post war years passed a strange wonderful thing happened union and confederate veterans