AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage on Thursday outlined a second-term agenda that ranged from reviving welfare reform proposals that have previously failed to a new initiative aimed at weakening the attorney general’s power.

In a wide-ranging conversation with the Bangor Daily News on Thursday afternoon, LePage also said the gubernatorial campaign taught him two somewhat paradoxical truths around his leadership style: “If you’re going to criticize somebody, you’ve got to bring something positive to the table” and “turning the other cheek hurts.”

“What I’m going to continue to try to do is continue to do what is good public policy,” he said. “I just hope we have more cooperation [from Democrats]. If we don’t, we’re still going to do the same thing and move the state forward.”

Following are some initiatives that LePage said Mainers will be hearing a lot about.

Changes to the attorney general’s office. LePage and Democratic Attorney General Janet Mills have clashed repeatedly since she was elected to the post two years ago when Democrats regained legislative majorities. LePage said he will pursue legislation to make the position — and possibly the state treasurer and secretary of state, which are also elected by legislators — subject to a statewide vote.

Similar proposals previously failed in the Legislature. LePage said he also wants to eliminate the requirement that the attorney general sign off on the legality of rules developed by state departments.

“We have a stack of regulations that we were entrusted to write and we can’t get them through because we have an attorney general who says it’s illegal,” said LePage, who added that this might well be the first bill he submits as governor. “It’s killing us.”

Despite the Senate flipping to Republican control and the GOP picking up 10 House seats, Democrats still have an overall majority, which means they can keep Mills in her position.

“If her job is safe, then the Democrats are putting a line in the sand really early in the game,” LePage said.

More tax cuts. LePage said he wants to lower the income and estate taxes for those in Maine’s upper-income brackets. He also aims to eliminate taxes on pensions. He plans to make those proposals in the biennial budget he presents to the Legislature in January 2015. Those proposals are sure to cause outcry from Democrats and possibly some Republicans who will say the cuts would unfairly benefit the wealthy. But LePage reasons that his proposals would help the state as a whole because reducing those taxes would spur people who own homes in Maine but establish residency in lower-taxed states to stay — and pay state taxes — here year-round.

“What we need to do is keep those people here,” LePage said. “If we keep them here, we keep their capital here. Keeping their capital here keeps their families here and they can help their family members develop small businesses.”

Saving the paper industry. LePage reiterated a plan to convince the New England states to pipe in natural gas from Pennsylvania, which he said would lower and stabilize energy prices for the mills. That’s what he’s been saying for months as mills in East Millinocket, Old Town and Bucksport have shuttered, but now his plan has another step.

“If we had natural gas right now I could get all those mills back up and running. … Then we develop a very aggressive [Maine Technology Institute] bond package to allow them to automate. Right now that’s a problem, their old equipment,” LePage said.

Changes to municipal revenue sharing. In 2013,LePage proposed eliminating municipal revenue sharing, a program in which the state sends millions of dollars annually to cities and towns, ostensibly to pay for vital services. Those efforts were turned back by Republicans and Democrats in the Legislature. He said his new twist on the funding, which also goes to town and city governments with the intended purpose of easing property taxes, is that he’ll propose to send the money directly to property taxpayers.

“The towns spend it faster than they can shake a stick at it,” he said. “If you pay property taxes, we’re sending you your share of revenue sharing directly.”

Changes in the structure of the executive branch. LePage said he wants to further consolidate state departments and agencies and might try to work with neighboring states to deliver some services.

“We have [information technology] and finance and human resources under one roof and it just isn’t working. We haven’t saved the money that we thought we would,” he said. “We’ve got to do something better than what we’re doing.”

LePage, who won re-election with more than 48 percent of the vote — and more total votes than any Maine governor in history — said the two days since his re-election have been a whirlwind, with calls pouring in from across Maine and the United States. Just then, his cellphone rang, followed not long afterward by his office phone.

“Everybody’s calling me,” he said. “I’m the most popular guy in the world, all of a sudden. Where have they been all my life?”