When I walked 3,200 miles across the United States for campaign reform and inquired of people why they were not voting, they said: 'Find us someone who understands us, who cares about us.' I'm talking about people living in trailers, people living in small towns with boarded-up windows on Main Street, with drugstores, grocery stores, hardware stores all eaten up by Wal-Mart, Costco, CVS Drugs, Home Depot, and other monsters several miles beyond the town. People coming out of farmhouses in Iowa, squeezed out of their livelihood by stinking agri-hog farms, people coming out of tobacco fields, cotton fields, wheat fields, people living in cities who have been out of work for over a year, people whose well-paid jobs have been shipped overseas, people desperate for relief from the oppressions of our corporatized and disempowered lives.
I promised to look for someone who would understand them, that had a vision of the future for them, that believed in Peace, Love, Justice. Well, here he is: Dennis Kucinich.
I believe he is the candidate who can bring new voters and disgruntled voters into the political process.
To those people I met on my walk across America: 'Now keep your promise
to me and come out and vote for him! Hugs.'"
Statement from Willie Nelson (July 2, 2003):
"I am endorsing Dennis Kucinich for President because he stands up
for heartland Americans who are too often overlooked and unheard.
He has done that his whole political career. Big corporations are
well-represented in Washington, but Dennis Kucinich is a rare Congressman
of conscience and bravery who fights for the unrepresented, much like the
late Senator Paul
Wellstone. Dennis champions individual privacy, safe food laws
and family farmers. A Kucinich Administration will put the interests
of America's family farmers, consumers and environment above the greed
of industrial agribusiness.
I normally do not get too heavily involved in politics, but this is more about getting involved with America than with politics. I encourage people to learn more about Dennis Kucinich at his website and I will be doing all I can to raise his profile with voters. I plan to do concerts to benefit the campaign."