A Public Utilities Company, seeking a franchise in a large city, sent an unscrupulous representative to interview a city official whose vote was sorely needed. When the official advised him that his vote was not for sale, the representative exclaimed: "Think of the money, man! It's the bargain of a lifetime. You'll never have another chance to make as much so easily."
"So easily!" replied the official. "Listen friend! No one ever yet got a bargain in sin. It's the highest-priced thing on the market. You tell me that all I have to do is to vote 'right.' Well, it isn't. That's only the beginning of what I'll have to do. I'll have to carry the consciousness of my dishonesty to the grave. I'll have to live with a remorseful conscience. I'll have to pose before my wife and children as someone I know I am not. Don't tell me it's a bargain."