“My best and greatest hope is in the people of this country, that the government has an important role to play, but not the primary role,” Hultgren said. “That the most important thing is providing opportunities. … That is what America is all about, is the right to rise. It’s not a guarantee. It’s not government leveling everybody else off, that no matter how hard you work everybody gets a ‘C’ in the class. No. It’s the opportunity to work hard and do better, and if you fail to learn from it, you come back stronger.”