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Clinton has more important things to worry about. He not only risks being destroyed historically, like Afghanistan's Buddha statues; he also could end up going to jail.
I am not for public executions, though I support the death penalty. One, it's an appropriate punishment in horrific cases, and two, it's a deterrent. There are studies that say that for every person executed, eight innocent people who might otherwise have been murdered were not.... (more Ed Koch quotes)
Koch once walked across the Brooklyn Bridge during a union strike with many Manhattan commuters.
Koch has never been married. In 1977 during the mayoral election his sexuality came into question. Even the anti-Koch slogan adopted by his non-supporters reflected this by expressing "Vote for Cuomo, not the homo."
In 2004 Koch was assigned as chairman of a volunteer drive for the Republican National Convention.
In Koch's first term in the late 1970s he restored New York City's fiscal health.
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