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“I think I probably made a mistake in the Hardwick case… I do think it was inconsistent in a general way with Roe. When I had the opportunity to reread the opinions a few months later, I thought the dissent had the better of the arguments.”

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

At NYU Law School, (18 October 1990); after retirement from the Court, reflecting on his vote in Bowers v. Hardwick to uphold laws making homosexual sex a crime for which people could be imprisoned. Reported in Nat Hentoff, &quot; Infamous Sodomy Law Struck Down http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9850,213790,2210,6.html&quot;, The Village Voice, 22 December 1998. <br class="br">1990s

“I know of no other nation in history that deliberately fought a major war with no intention or effort to use its full available forces to carry the war to the enemy's heartland: in Vietnam the capability to do so clearly existed. The effect of this strategy on the attitudes of our own people, and on foreign attitudes toward America, are well known. Less well known are its consequences in Southeast Asia, which include the exodus of the boat people from Vietnam and the Communist genocide in Cambodia.”

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

As quoted in General Maxwell Taylor: The Sword and the Pen (1989) by John Martin Taylor, p. xii.
1980s

“I think I probably made a mistake in the Hardwick case… I do think it was inconsistent in a general way with Roe.”

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

When I had the opportunity to reread the opinions a few months later, I thought the dissent had the better of the arguments. <br class="br">At NYU Law School, (18 October 1990); after retirement from the Court, reflecting on his vote in Bowers v. Hardwick to uphold laws making homosexual sex a crime for which people could be imprisoned. Reported in Nat Hentoff, &quot; Infamous Sodomy Law Struck Down http://www.villagevoice.com/news/9850,213790,2210,6.html&quot;, The Village Voice, 22 December 1998. <br class="br">1990s