Well, as a matter of fact, I've voted to kill Big Bird in the past. So, I have a record there that I have to disclose. That doesn't mean I don't like Big Bird. I mean, you can kill things and still like them. I mean, maybe to eat them, I don't know.

Piers Morgan Tonight (CNN), 4 October 2012, quoted in Rachel Weiner (5 October 2012), "Rick Santorum: "You can kill things and still like them"", The Washington Post, retrieved on 2014-10-07