What they said on Day 8 of the campaign

WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 8 OF THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN

THE BEST LINE

"Great! Another knuckle dragger from the far right who's going to be one of Malcolm Turnbull's team."

- Bill Shorten about the Liberal candidate for Fremantle.

PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL

"I'm the prime minister and I hope he's out there engaging with the people of Fremantle."

- On why he did not appear with the local candidate.

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"It isn't good enough just to lift a slogan from a George Bush campaign and say: fantastic, let's do it."

- About the coalition's "jobs and growth" strategy.

THE SECOND XI

"I'm not a commentator, I'm an activist."

- Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne won't be pressed on the potential "nightmare" of Nick Xenophon's candidates taking South Australian seats.

"We are part of a great continuum of history."

- Pyne again, this time on whether the Abbott legacy is the Turnbull legacy.

"This is not an election where it's the top half of the cup versus the bottom half of the cup. Malcolm Turnbull has decided to back in the very top, the froth of the cappuccino."

- Labor campaign spokesman Tony Burke fronts the media, possibly before having his own morning coffee.

WHAT HE DIDN'T SAY

Labor's workplace relations spokesman Brendan O'Connor declined to say "yes" when asked seven times by 3AW's Neil Mitchell if he supported Bill Shorten's past statements on backing the independence of the Fair Work Commission on penalty rates.