Quotes / Officer O'Hara

Sergeant: This officer here will escort you downtown.
Max: Oh, really?
Sergeant: No, O'Reilly.

—joke written for the Screen-to-Stage Adaptation of The Producers but mercifully unused

"Good boy paddy/no matter where you roam/don't forget your country or the ones you left at home./Write a letter now and then/and send me all you can/but Paddy dear/sure don't forget/you are an Irishman!"

Barry Fitzgerald, The Naked City

"If it weren't for the Irish, we wouldn't have a police force—and if it weren't for the Irish, we wouldn't need one."

—19th-century New York joke