Srbijanski predsjednik Boris Tadić, koji je prisustvovao tom pogrebu, podsjetio je na patrijarhove riječi: "Budimo humani i nikad ne odgovarajmo na zlo drugih zlim u nama samima."
Serbian President Boris Tadic, who attended the funeral, recalled the patriarch's words: "Let us be humane and never respond to the evil of others with evil within ourselves."