Private Reiben: You wouldn't shoot the kraut and now you're gonna shoot me?
Sergeant Horvath: He's better than you.
Private Jackson: What I mean by that, sir, is if you was to put me and this here sniper rifle anywhere up to and including one mile from Adolf Hitler... With a clean line of sight... Pack your bags, fellas. War's over. Amen.
Captain Miller: It's like finding a needle in a stack of needles.
Private Reiben: I got a bad feeling about this one.
Captain Miller: When was the last time you felt good about anything?
Steamboat Willie: American, I like American.
Private Ryan: Picture a girl who took a nosedive from the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
Captain Miller: Maybe we should bust up into groups, wander the woods like Hansel and Gretel, calling his name. He's bound to hear us sooner or later. RYAN!
Captain Miller: He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.
Cpt. Miller: I'll see you on the beach!
Private Caparzo: Captain, the decent thing to do would be take her over to the next town.
Captain John Miller: We're not here to do the decent thing, we're here to follow f*cking orders!
Chosen answer: There's no tree cover to the left. Whoever goes that way will likely be spotted and targeted before the others and get gunned down, but it's their best chance that one of them will make it into grenade range of the nest before they're all killed. It's not a job anyone sane would volunteer for, and the Captain is trying to get someone to volunteer so he doesn't have to potentially order TWO men to their deaths on a mission that all of them, including him, think isn't worthwhile.
Captain Defenestrator