“Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood I...” — Gary Miller Quote

Today more than 20,000 communities participate in the National Flood Insurance Program. More than 90 insurance companies sell and service flood service insurance. There are more than four million policies covering the total of $800 billion.

Energy companies, such as Chevron and Shell, and oil producing countries, such as Kuwait and Venezuela, pump crude oil from their vast land holdings and sell it on the world market.

In 2001, America 's hospitals provided nearly $21 billion in uncompensated health care services.

The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.

One of the things I'm proudest of is, on my record 'That Was the Year that Was' in 1965, I made a joke about spending $20 billion sending some clown to the moon. I was against the manned space program then, and I'm even more against it now, that whole waste of money.

Out of 1.6 billion Muslims, perhaps only 300 million actually understand the language of the Koran.

In 100 billion years, the universe will be a very strange place.

While the Internet is important for us, India is also necessary for the Internet with its 1.2 billion population.

Even if you're a relatively small player in search, that can still mean a company that's worth several billion dollars.