General Obligation

A general obligation is a legal pledge in United States municipal finance, in which an entity pledges its full faith and credit to repay its debt, typically a general obligation bond.

Famous quotes containing the words general and/or obligation:

    When General Motors has to go to the bathroom ten times a day, the whole country’s ready to let go. You heard of that market crash in ‘29? I predicted that.... I was nursing a director of General Motors. Kidney ailment, they said; nerves, I said. Then I asked myself, “What’s General Motors got to be nervous about?” “Overproduction,” I says. “Collapse.”
    John Michael Hayes (b. 1919)

    Too great a hurry to discharge an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
    François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)