During his interview, Fox discussed the five pieces of legislation that lawmakers had introduced at his office’s request this session. They revise DUI laws, prescription opioid abuse policy, sexual-assault kit testing, stalking laws, and state medical examiner funding. Three were introduced by Democrats. All of them, in Fox's view, address matters that “transcend partisan politics.”

“Being a statesman," he ventured, "it means sometimes taking transformational positions that are not always popular or at least not popular in your own party or (with) people that would support you or like you otherwise.”

He said he hopes to continue that approach in the governor’s office. “I believe that Republicans and Democrats feel that there are things that we can agree on. I think all Montanans agree that our leaders need to work together when they can find consensus and they need to do it without compromising their ideals.

“That’s what I’ve been able to do” as attorney general, he said. “Will there be less room for agreement, perhaps, as governor? I think there will be plenty of opportunities to find a way forward.”