'Are you ready to end the war in Iraq?'

"Are you ready to end the war in Iraq and restore America's reputation around the world?" Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton proclaimed to rousing cheers tonight at the Celeste Center on the Ohio State Fairgrounds. "End this war in Iraq and bring our troops home."

Clinton said the current administration is government "of the few, by the few and for the few."

"If you're ready, I'm ready to take our country back again,'' Clinton said.

"I want to be a president that sets goals again,'' Clinton said. "I want us to believe in ourselves. . . We can set goals, because it's time for us to reassert those fundamental American values of strength and hope."

"We've got to get back to believing that everybody matters,'' she said.

Earlier, Clinton thanked the audience for last year's victories and for "leading the country back on the right track in '08."

Clinton thanked Jennifer Brunner "for restoring the Secretary of State's office."

And she said Gov. Ted Strickland is restoring integrity to the office of the governor. Strickland has certainly made a difference in this state, and it's rippling beyond the borders, she said.