1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder We're gonna come out of this war rich!
You're gonna come out rich. We're gonna come out dead.
Played by Jon Voight 
Catch-22 (1970) · 15 quotes
Catch-22 (1970) · 15 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Catch-22 (1970): in 4 of its 15 quotes
Most scenes with: Yossarian (4)
Scenes with 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder
4 scenes 1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Those bastards are trying to kill me.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder No one is trying to kill you sweetheart. Now eat your dessert like a good boy.
Oh yeah? Then why are they shooting at me Milo?
Dobbs
They're shooting at everyone Yossarian.
And what difference does that make?
Dobbs
Look Yossarian, suppose, I mean just suppose everyone thought the same way you do.
Then I'd be a damn fool to think any different.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Yossarian, I want you to do something for me. [removes item from small bag] I want to serve this to the men. Taste it and let me know what you think.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Chocolate-covered cotton.
What are you, crazy?
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder No good, huh?
For Christ's sake, you didn't even take the seeds out!
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Is it really that bad?
It's cotton!
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder They've got to learn to like it!
Why?
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Look, I saw this great opportunity to corner the market in Egyptian cotton. How was I supposed to know there was going to be a glut? I've got a hundred warehouses stacked with the stuff all over the European theater. I can't get rid of a penny's worth. People eat cotton candy, don't they? Well this stuff is better - it's made out of real cotton.
Milo, people can't eat cotton!
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder They've got to - it's for the Syndicate!
It will make them sick! - why don't you try it yourself if you don't believe me?
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder I did - and it made me sick.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Nately died a wealthy man, Yossarian. He had over sixty shares in the syndicate.
What difference does that make? He's dead.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Then his family will get it.
He didn't have time to have a family.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Then his parents will get it.
They don't need it, they're rich.
1st Lt. Milo Minderbinder Then they'll understand.
