If that's your definition of the Clinton faction, then I think that that seems to be in ascendancy. That might include a guy like John Edwards, who's just starting this new center in Chapel Hill to deal with issues of poverty and work.
Quotes about faction (15 Quotes)
I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.
No faction is better or worse than any other. All come from the same mould; they are all products of capitalist influence in the working class movement. And they are a poison that destroys our Party and the working class movement in Korea.
If't be so,
Hamlet is of the faction that is wrong'd;
His madness is poor Hamlet's enemy.
It's a bit odd that nobody seems to be using the correct technical term to describe organized Islamic terrorists. They are not a faction of a religion or a social movement. They are a cult. A suicide cult.
Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
It is impossible that the whisper of a faction should prevail against the voice of a nation.
If the Moore faction wins three or four of those seats, and especially if Parker beats Brown, I think the perception will be ... that the church faction of the Republican Party is now more powerful at the ballot box in Alabama than the business faction of the Republican Party.
Meantime, in signal of my love to thee,
Against proud Somerset and William Pole,
Will I upon thy party wear this rose;
And here I prophesy: this brawl to-day,
Grown to this faction in the Temple Garden,
Shall send between the Red Rose and the White
A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Especially ahead of the National People Congress beginning November 7 with power structure changes -- who's in, who's out and what scores are being settled -- some of the recent scandals have raised the question whether someone is being prosecuted because it was a sign of a loss of some power or potential loss of power by a particular faction in the government.
We must stifle the voice of hatred and faction.
Parties in Wit attend on those of State,
And publick Faction doubles private Hate.
In the weakness of one kind of authority, and in the fluctuation of all, the officers of an army will remain for some time mutinous and full of faction, until some popular general, who understands the art of conciliating the soldiery, and who possesses the true spirit of command, shall draw the eyes of all men upon himself. Armies will obey him on his personal account. There is no other way of securing military obedience in this state of things.
The government is overreacting. There may be a threat from a small faction within the army, but it's not serious enough to topple her government.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.