What they said on the election campaign

WHAT THEY SAID ON DAY 3

THE BEST LINE

"We say what we mean, we mean what we say, we do what we say we'd do, in the way we say we'd do it."

- Treasurer Scott Morrison campaigning in Tasmania.

A DELICATE MOMENT FOR PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL

"She's a very experienced businesswoman ... highly qualified ... with a powerful voice in the federal parliament."

- PM avoids repeating the "bit of sex appeal" label Tony Abbott put on Lindsay MP Fiona Scott during the 2013 election.

LABOR LEADER BILL SHORTEN

"I want Australia to be competing with the world and winning."

THE SECOND XI

"You know it's an election when Malcolm Turnbull is in western Sydney."

- Labor frontbencher Tony Burke.

"I have never disclosed how I voted, and frankly I never will."

- Liberal MP Fiona Scott on who she supported in the Abbott-Turnbull contest eight months ago.

"It's like suggesting BHP is a landscaping company."

- Labor's Ed Husic on government plans to raise the small business tax cut threshold over 10 years.

"Chris Bowen will need more than a shave to give himself economic credibility."

- Cabinet minister Josh Frydenberg on the now beardless shadow treasurer.

"It'd be our Freddy Krueger outcome because it will be nightmare on North Queensland street for us."

- Nationals senator Matt Canavan on the prospect of a Labor-Greens government.

NOT WHAT YOU WANT TO HEAR

"Who are you?!" a senior asks as she steps on a train in Sydney.

"Well, I'm doing a bit of conducting on the train you see," Malcolm Turnbull replies on his way to Penrith.