Some comrades apparently find it hard to understand that democracy is just a slogan.

-Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich
  In the Observer,1 Feb.

The preservation of life seems to be rather a slogan than a genuine goal of the anti-abortion forces; what they want is control.Control over behavior: power over women.

-Le Guin, Ursula ne¤  e Kroeber
   Address to the National  Abortion Rights  Action League, Jan. Collected as'The Princess' in Dancing at the Edge of the World (1989).