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Wilson spoke at the funeral services for former First Lady [[Pat Nixon]] in 1993 and former President [[Richard M. Nixon]] in 1994 at the [[Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum|Nixon Library]] in [[Yorba Linda, California]]. Two years later, Wilson became, to date, the most recent governor to speak at a California gubernatorial funeral, that of former Governor [[Pat Brown]].
For most of his time as governor, Wilson reduced per-capita infrastructure spending for California, much as he had done as the Mayor of San Diego.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.csus.edu/calst/Government_Affairs/reports/financing_california.pdf |title=
[[Term limits|Term limit laws]] passed by voters as Proposition 140, and championed by Wilson in 1990, prohibited Wilson from running for re-election to a third term. At the end of his time in office, Wilson left California with a $16 billion budget surplus (equivalent to ${{Format price|{{Inflation|US-GDP|16000000000|1998}}}} in {{Inflation/year|US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|US-GDP}}). He was succeeded by then-[[lieutenant governor]] [[Gray Davis]] as governor.
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On September 27, 2007, Wilson endorsed [[Rudolph Giuliani]] for [[U.S. President]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://articles.latimes.com/2007/sep/28/nation/na-wilson28 |title=Scott Martelle, Pete Wilson endorses Giuliani. ''Los Angeles Times'', September 28, 2007 |date= September 28, 2007|access-date=January 21, 2011}}</ref> but Giuliani later dropped out of the primary. On February 4, 2008, Wilson endorsed [[John McCain]] as a candidate for U.S. president.
In 2007, a statue of Wilson joined Ernest Hahn and [[Alonzo Horton]] on the San Diego Walk of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |last=Steele |first=Jeanette |url=http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070826-9999-1m26wilson.html |title=Jeanette Steele, Wilson statue is unveiled as Latinos, gays protest. ''San Diego Union-Tribune, August 26, 2007 |publisher=Legacy.signonsandiego.com |date=August 26, 2007 |access-date=January 21, 2011 |archive-date=February 24, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100224075242/http://legacy.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070826-9999-1m26wilson.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Two hundred sponsors donated $200,000 to build the statue. Progressive Latino and LGBT groups protested the unveiling.<ref>{{cite web|last=Steele |first=Jeanette |url=http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070826/news_1m26wilson.html |title=Wilson statue is unveiled as Latinos, gays protest | The San Diego Union-Tribune |publisher=Signonsandiego.com |date=August 26, 2007 |access-date=January 21, 2011}}</ref>
On May 23, 2009, Wilson gave the commencement speech and received an honorary degree from the San Diego State University of Professional Studies and Fine Arts.<ref>{{cite web
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