will.i.am (William James Adams, Jr.) Quotes

Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

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• Here's the problem: Profiteers haunt America, and for everything we try to control, someone's going to profit from it, more than you control it.

  

  will.i.am
  • Trying
  • America
  • Problem