Success comes when common people make inspired innovations because there is reason to believe innovation is rewarded. The likelihood that opportunity will lead to success depends in part on equality of opportunity for individuals and on the enforcement of property rights and contracts. America should cheer most loudly when the federal government stands for these principles rather when it stands for the principles of subsidies for special interests and broken laws and provisions. America is at its best when there is reason to expect that effort is rewarded, investments are rewarded, and innovation is rewarded. Success is ultimately common people doing uncommon things because they have reason to believe that it is worthwhile.
Success is always the product of the individual.
You stare that person in the eye each morning. Don't belittle the efforts of others by claiming responsibility for their success, and don't belittle your own efforts by conditioning your success entirely on the generosity of others. Your success, and the success of rural America, and the success of all individuals throughout America, comes despite and not because of federal aid. Successful people succeed when they look to themselves for that little extra charge of inspiration, that little extra surge of effort. Success at the FCC means following the law and following Congress.